Salvia argentea ................ PRICE 1@ $12.00

Huge flat rosettes of incredibly fuzzy Lambs Ear foliage, it sends up a spectacular branching candelabrum of white flowers. Individual rosettes go monocarpic after flowering but in can be induced to produce offsets that will live on and flower in a year or two; ad infinitum.

 

Salvia caespitosa .............. PRICE 1@ $6.50

These are from Mojmir’s collections at 1800m on Ala Dag, woody based plants with gray green hairy leaves, and 2-8 large flowers on 5-10cm stems (it needs to be grown lean to stay compact) color ranges from near white to pink to violet in this colony.

 

Salvia discolor .................... PRICE 1@ $6.50

Beautiful thick satiny silver leaves, sticky to the touch and large jet black flowers, a spectacular plant, tender here, it makes a great container plant for patios, grown as a winter houseplant in the north or outside in warmer areas, Peru in mountains.

 

Salvia disermas  ................ PRICE 1@ $12.00

Flowers and foliage are a bit like officianalis but the fragrance is much different. Pleasant but not something that goes with poultry disermas is from a cold region in the Karoo desert and surprisingly tough.

 

Salvia 'Cherry Queen' ..... PRICE 1@ $8.00

Bright red flowers all summer long, it’s great as a tub plant and I have heard reports of it wintering outside at least in mild winters.

 

Salvia gregii ........................... PRICE 1@ $6.50

Cultivated material ex R.M.R.P. seed from ‘Wild Thing,’ one of the hardiest forms Rebecca says zone 5 with brilliant cerise flowers for months.

 

SALVIA GUARANITICA 'Omaha Gold' PRICE 1@ $12.00

A variegated form with green centered leaves it is a huge sprawling thing reaching 7’ in height with purple flowers, if pinched heavily early in the season it makes a great tub plant for decks and patios.

 

Salvia hians ............................. PRICE 1@ $6.50

A robust perennial common in Kashmir with aromatic sticky glandular foliage and multiple flowering stems to 1m tall with 4cm blue to purple flowers often with a white lip.

 

Salvia x jamisensis............ PRICE 1@ $6.50

A late blooming Salvia with creamy yellow or occasionally light pink broad lipped flowers.

 

Salvia leucophylla .......... PRICE 1@ $8.00

Ratko collections from 3,150’; dry open grassy areas above the headwaters of Figueroa Creek, in warm climates this will form a 3’x5’ fuzzy leaved, woody based evergreen sub shrubs. Short scapes with whorls of large rose pink flowers marked with violet, very showy, in colder areas it may persist as a dieback, here it needs a greenhouse.

 

Salvia lyrata 'Purple Knockout' PRICE 1@ $6.50

Flat rosettes of luscious purple, a wintergreen perennial native to open woods and sandy clearings in the Southeast, the spikes of flowers are attractive enough.

 

Salvia microphylla variegata PRICE 1@ $6.50

Bright cherry red flowers much loved by hummingbirds and produced all summer long, plants form neat bushlets, their tiny oval leaves neatly edged in white. Like all the good red salvias, it’s hardy only in El Nino years here.

 

Salvia nemorosa 'Blaukonigan' PRICE 1@ $8.00

The nemorosa are staples of the perennial border, blooming for many months, Blue Queen is compact and free blooming with bluish violet flowers, all of the plants we list as nemorosa may actually be the x superba hybrid.

 

Salvia nemorosa 'Plumosa' PRICE 1@ $8.00

A unique plant with deep rose purple plumes of bloom, great for cut or dried flowers, we think its one of the best new salvias.

 

Salvia nemorosa ssp tesquicola PRICE 1@ $8.00

Commonly known as Testicle Cola, 2 foot tall with brilliant violet spikes and please no more bitch letters complaining that the catalog lacks common names.

 

Salvia pitcheri ..................... PRICE 1@ $8.00

Tall border species, narrow willowy leaves and stems with large sky blue flowers that rival anything in the genus, plus it's hardy.

 

Salvia pratensis 'Meadow Ballet Blend'       PRICE 1@ $8.00

Native to most of Europe pratensis is outstanding these are a mix of blue violet pink and white flowered forms, very free blooming they rebloom well if deadheaded.

 

Salvia regaliana ................. PRICE 1@ $6.50

Spikes of bluish purple flowers it is quite showy and a bit obscure in terms of origins

 

Salvia scleria turkestanica PRICE 1@ $6.50

Permanent in our gardens via self sowing it is rather short lived with large showy bracts subtending the flowers, it is probably the most asked for salvia in our gardens.

 

SALVIA TARAXIFOLIA ............. PRICE 1@ $6.50

Cool little thing, it looks like it should have come from one of the Czechs, endemic to the limestones of the Atlas Mts. at altitudes to 2500m. and not closely related to any other Salvia species. It forms little bushlets of citrus scented grayish dandelion foliage, eventually forming wide mats studded with 6” scapes of pinkish cream flowers.

 

Sanguisorba menziesii ... PRICE 1@ $6.50

A showy species ranging from Washington up to Alaska these are from an Alplains collection, Google it if you need to see pictures.

 

Sanguisorba minor ............ PRICE 1@ $6.50

A European species the Lesser Burnet is common on dry grassland, it is often grown for culinary purposes and is attractive enough for the perennial border.

 

Sanguisorba officianalis 'Shiro Fururin'     PRICE 1@ $12.00

A rarely available white variegated form that Hinkley brought back form Japan; it has been stable for us although rather slow growing.

 

Sanguisorba officianalis 'Tanna' PRICE 1@ $6.50

A dwarf form of Great Burnet, the compact 10” mounds of foliage are topped by myriads of burgundy heads on short stems, thanks to Dan for making it available to American gardeners.

 

Sanguisorba tenuifolia PRICE 1@ $8.00

John from H&H brought us this cool Japanese Sanguisorba (which was supposed to be purple but it is only purple early in the season). I haven’t seen him in a while (new baby and all) but I expect the next time he shows up he will be wearing a think geek “ no I will not fix your computer tee shirt”. It is not like we take advantage of him or anything, I even gave him my ferret eaten cordless mouse; he must have liked it because they named the baby after the ferret, (don’t believe that stuff about old family names) but I digress buy the Sanguisorba if we run out I can always try to beg more.

 

Santolina chamaecyparissus 'Foxden'            PRICE 1@ $6.50

A compact form that originated with H & H, it is a bit like small ness, it has been a good grower for us and deserves a wider exposure.

 

Saponaria Bressingham hyb. PRICE 1@ $6.50

Ocymoides x oliviana which is itself a hybrid between S. pumilio and S. caespitosa, its a beautiful cross, produced at Bressingham, one of the best.

 

Saponaria caespitosa .... PRICE 1@ $6.50

Tight mounds of awl shaped leaves, looks like a robust Silene acaulis, pink flowers on short stems, a favorite of mine.

 

Saponaria lutea .................. PRICE 1@ $6.50

Yellow is a rare color in Saponaria, and this is a fairly nice alpine species, it would seem to have a lot of potential for plant breeding, a good yellow ocymoides or pulvinaris would be most welcome.

 

Saponaria ocymoides ...... PRICE 1@ $6.50

Flat mats to several feet across, this does not root down as it creeps, making it easy to lift up and trim back the cushion.

 

Saponaria officianalis .. PRICE 1@ $6.50

Bouncing Bet, I’m guessing Bet jiggled a bit when she ran, if that image doesn’t entrance you then try watching the sphinx moths that flock to this in the evening. No serious moth and butterfly collector should be without this.

 

Saponaria pulvinaris 'Red Select' PRICE 1@ $6.50

Grassy leaved dense tufts of foliage, and large deep pink flowers on short stems, horribly confused with pumilio in gardens, these came from Euroseed originally and we picked the best to propagate clonally. 'Red Select' is a fantastic clone forming a tight mat smothered in deep pinkish red flowers, it is one of the most commented on cushions in our tufa beds.

 

Saponaria pulvinaris 'Light Pink' PRICE 1@ $6.50

A light pink flowered clone we selected from the same seedlot.

 

Saponaria sp ex PYRENEES Jurasek PRICE 1@ $6.50

These should bloom this year then we will know for sure what they are probably caespitosa or something similar.

 

Saponaria x boiseri .......... PRICE 1@ $6.50

An excellent plant resulting from the cross of Saponaria caespitosa and Saponaria ocymoides it retains the compact habit of caespitosa and combines it with the abundant large flowers of S. ocymoides

 

Saponaria X oliviana ....... PRICE 1@ $6.50

Excellent large flowered garden hybrid between caespitosa and pumilio, cutting grown, one of the best Saponarias.

 

Saponaria x weimanii ....... PRICE 1@ $6.50

One of those mysterious plants that seem to appear on the greenhouse benches from time to time, it looked great so Dick whacked a bunch, if anyone knows the grex and history drop me a note.

 

Saruma henryi ..................... PRICE 1@ $12.00

A rare Asian Asarum relative it is unique, with felted leaves on upright stems and a long succession of light yellow flowers, strangely most of the recent shade gardening books seem to have ignored it

 

Satureja montana ............ PRICE 1@ $6.50

Winter Savory, decorative aromatic foliage on neat little dwarf bushes, long grown as a culinary herb as well as for its attractive pale violet flowers.

 

Satureja spicigera .......... PRICE 1@ $6.50

A strongly aromatic densely tufted plant with compact racemes of showy blue flowers, native to the limestones of the central Caucasus where Mojmir found it at 2000m.

 

Satureja spinosa ‘thorny horny beast’        PRICE 1@ $5.50

Dick and Brigitta selected the tightest most compact clone we were going to call it ‘Plum Pudding’ but that name was already taken.

 

Saururus cernuus ............ PRICE 1@ $6.50

Our native Lizard’s Tail is one of only two members of the Saururacaea, the other Asian counterpart being listed in the perennial section, this moisture loving perennial can reach 1.25m in height topped by 30cm long inflorescences that taper like a fragrant white lizards tail. If you don’t already grow it, buy some and get them planted immediately, don’t tempt fate and piss off the lizard god, his wrath should be avoided at all costs, he’s already licking his eyeballs at the prospect of new victims.

 

Saururus chinensis ....... PRICE 1@ $15.00

The Asian counterpart of our native Lizard’s Tail with spikes of ivory flowers, collecting Asian versions of American natives has become popular of late, (collectors often hold meetings and chant ‘Reunite Gondwanaland’ while shooting into the air with AK-47’s). However, I digress, taxonomically the two are separated by the position of the anthers in chinensis they are held below the stigmas, in cernuus they are held above.

 

Saxifraga

You will notice a dearth of saxes this year, most of them took a beating this summer and we decided to pull most everything and start over with new cuttings, also we have pretty well saturated the market, if you didn’t get any in the last few years you are s.o.l.

 

Saxifraga aspera ............... PRICE 1@ $6.50

A white flowering European species in the Trachyphyllum Section, it’s native to the Pyrenees and Alps at altitudes from 1500-2000m. it does not like to dry out but still wants sharp drainage, quite easy compared to some of the others we offer.

 

Saxifraga cochlearis minor PRICE 1@ $6.50

A tiny little silver Sax with cushions of miniscule close packed lime encrusted rosettes, beautiful clinging to a lump of tufa and much easier then most Kabs.

 

Saxifraga cotyledon pyramidalis PRICE 1@ $6.50

One of the showiest Silver Saxifrages, rosettes of lime encrusted leaves to 12cm across topped by a 60cm pyramidal inflorescence of white flowers, a spectacular Saxifrage that belongs in every shaded crevice you rock garden has to spare.

 

Saxifraga cuniifolia ........ PRICE 1@ $6.50

One of only four species in the Section Gymnospora, cuneata like the larger London Pride is an attractive carpeter for a shady rock garden; flowers are white with purple spots on 15cm scapes.

 

Saxifraga longifolia ...... PRICE 1@ $6.50

The ultimate silver (florulenta doesn't count, I can't grow it) huge monocarpic rosettes that can reach dinner plate size, then they send up a huge spray of flowers and die without offsets; from the Pyrenees.

 

Saxifraga pan. minutifolia 'Red backed spider'   PRICE 1@ $6.50

It will ensnare you with its charm, however it's quite safe and well behaved, unlike its Australian namesake. Punnett selected this as a chance seedling out of a batch of minutifolia, for the good red color on the undersides of the leaves.

 

Saxifraga pentadactylus ssp willkommii   PRICE 1@ $6.50

A fairly rare little mossy sax, from 1800m in Spain, Mojmir found these in the Sierra Cantabrica on limestone, ssp willkommii is apparently a lime lover with more compact cushions of aromatic foliage then the straight species, flowers are white in panicles of 5-30 which are produced in the typical mossy fashion.

 

Saxifraga trifurcata variegata PRICE 1@ $6.50

A nicely variegated form with very thready leaves and an open habit, I think Betty Blake originally gave it to me, the name and details are long forgotten but the plant remains; one of the few mossies that we have kept over the years.

 

Saxifraga x andrewsii .... PRICE 1@ $6.50

A hybrid between S. paniculata and S. spathularis, it is an attractive easy silver, and grown widely in French cemeteries.