salvia with light blue flowers

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Fermi

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salvia with light blue flowers
« on: November 08, 2013, 08:07:37 AM »
I got this as some discarded clippings from the garden at the Ferny Creek Hort Society in September and thought they were what I already had as Salvia 'Celestial Blue' - but it has flowers in whorls not a spike like these.
Any idea to its ID would be appreciated - these are the first flowers; the foliage is strongly scented and was more greyish when first collected - the light green colour maybe due to being kept partly shaded for the last 2 months,
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Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
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working as a physio to support my gardening habit!

Trevor Australis

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Re: salvia with light blue flowers
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2013, 10:22:43 PM »
It looks like a salvia David Glenn has distributed from Lambley as a form of Salvia officinalis collected in Greece. I think he says its called Greek Skies. It usually has one large leaf joined at the petiole by two smaller ones, thus giving it a trident shaped leaf cluster.


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Fermi

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Re: salvia with light blue flowers
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2013, 10:48:36 AM »
Thanks, Trevor,
I just had a look at the Lambley website lambley.com.au and he's calling it Salvia fruticosa 'Greek Skies' and the pics look a bit like these; just a bit more floriferous ;D
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Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
member of AGS, SRGC, NARGS
working as a physio to support my gardening habit!