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Blue Hill Meadow Sage

Salvia x sylvestris Blue Hill 'Blauhügel'

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'Blue Hill' Meadow Sage boasts striking, lilac-blue blooms and wonderfully fragrant foliage. A compact sage that works beautifully in border plantings and containers, 'Blue Hill' is both deer and rabbit resistant and tolerates dry, hot weather like a pro. Best in full sun. (Salvia nemorosa)

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Blue Hill is a shorter Salvia, blooming a lilac blue color and wonderfully fragrant.


Planting & Care

About Salvias: Salvias can be confusing. Everybody knows those fire-engine red spires we see in park plantings every summer. Well, they're the annuals. Were dealing here with perennials. And most perennial Salvias bloom blue or purple, and most are much larger plants than the little red annuals.

Growing with numerous dense flower spikes that come into full bloom in May or June, the cultivars of S. nemorosa (which is a combo of several European species that are winter hardy) have become the favored ones for perennial gardens. Some people call them Sage. Some just call them Salvias. But everyone who grows them loves them in the garden. Here are the best-known classic cultivars:

Sensation Rose is the rich red growing up to about two feet.
May Night is the very popular taller one with the signature deep purple Salvia color, to 3 feet.
Snow Hill is the rather short, but popular white, growing only to about 20 inches.

These famous Salvias , growing together or in single stands, are sure color every season in your perennial garden.

About warmer zones: Famous perennial guru Allan Armitage, who gardens in the south, warns that these Salvias may survive all the way to zone 9, but he says from Zone 8 south, they flop over terribly, making problems for the gardener, while further north they stand tall and straight. He heartily recommends them for gardeners  in colder zones.

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Key Features

Light Requirements

  • Full Sun

Bloom Time

Early to late summer

Advantages

  • Bee Friendly
  • Attracts Butterflies
  • Attracts Hummingbirds
  • Attracts Birds
  • Mass Plantings
  • Easy To Grow
  • Cut Flowers
  • Dried Flowers
  • Fragrant
  • Deer Resistant
  • Rabbit Resistant

Tolerates

  • Dry Sites
  • Salt

Additional information

Mature Height

16-20" tall

Mature Spread

12-18" wide

Soil Type

  • Loamy Soil
  • Sandy Soil
  • Well-Drained Soil

Soil Moisture

  • Average
  • Dry

Planting Depth

The base of the stem(s) should be just at the soil surface after watering in

Planting Time

  • Fall

Flower Size

Showy spikes of tiny, tubular, two-lipped flowers (each to 1/2” long)

Plant Classification

Introduced Cultivar

Growing Zones

  • Zone 4
  • Zone 5
  • Zone 6
  • Zone 7
  • Zone 8

Neonicotinoid Free

Yes
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Overall rating: 4.3103447 / 5 from 29 reviews.

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Bumbees Love These

"These struggled to get started but by mid August were robust plants with many flowers. Both the bumble bees and humming birds really feed on them. Will buy more of these to fill in the flower garden."

— Up N. (5/5)

Very unsatisfied

"These plants arrived in very poor condition!! And even with my nurturing are really struggling. I purchased some Floxglove from another nursery. I am sending you a picture of yours on the left and the other on the right. Arleene"

— AD (1/5)

Very Hardy In The Texas Heat Wave

"I was looking for full sun tolerant perennials that would attract Humming Birds and be unattractive to deer. These have been the only plants to flourish in the Texas 100+ degree heat."

— Tejicano (5/5)

I would buy this again

"Beautiful flowers"

— Rosey (5/5)

I would recommend

"Planted last year, Healthy and nice looking, Larger than expected."

— Dont U. (5/5)

Very disappointed

"I spent hundreds of dollars and considerable time planting bulbs and pre-planned gardens. Only one grass has come up out of over 40."

— Reporter (1/5)

Yes, I would buy these plants again.

"The meadow sage arrived in a healthy state. Maybe due to the heat of this summer, they did not grow as tall as expected. Now that fall is coming, they are no longer blooming, and are not upright anymore."

— Farmers D. (5/5)

i would buy this again

"my first year with natives and this one started out slow then gave me a good bloom later in the summer . love the color ."

— Joe (4/5)

Very nice quality, healthy plant

"Plant was small when received but grew quickly and has been moved up to larger pots twice. Even through a brutal heat wave it has done very well."

— Cynder (5/5)

I ordered 4 plants and only 1 survived.

"When the plants arrived, the box had been battered, the soil was scattered loose. Only 2 bits of matter could be identified as plant. Only one survived, but it does look good."

— Carla (1/5)

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