Salvia vanhoutii (Burgundy Form)
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Van Houtt’s Brazilian Sage

Salvia

Sage

Thought in ancient times to perpetuate good health, an Arab proverb asks, “How shall a man die with sage in his garden?” Our Salvias are diverse perennials, shrubs or subshrubs. Many of them hail from the Mediterranean, Mexico and South America.

Drought tolerant, reliable once established, and generally pest and disease free, they combine an array of flowers and aromatic foliage in many different sizes, shapes, and hues.

Salvia vanhoutii (Burgundy Form)   

This showy Salvia makes a dazzling container plant. The large, layered, burgundy buds have pointed sepals and open into numerous dark carmine-colored flowers with wine-red calyxes. Intriguing raised red ridges run horizontally around the stems at regular intervals like rungs on a ladder, connecting the reddish leaf petioles of each pair of opposite leaves.

Be sure to provide winter protection, as Salvia vanhoutii is hardy only in warmer climates.

Blooms July–October.

Size: 4' 0" high x 4' 0" wide; hardy to zone 9.

Salvia vanhoutii (Burgundy Form) (P-0775)
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Other selections in this genus

• Salvia x ‘Allen Chickering’
• Salvia argentea
• Salvia arizonica
• Salvia azurea ‘Nekan’
• Salvia ‘Bee’s Bliss’
• Salvia brandegeei ‘Pacific Blue’
• Salvia cacaliaefolia
• Salvia chiapensis
• Salvia clevelandii ‘Whirly Blue’
• Salvia confertiflora
• Salvia corrugata
• Salvia ‘El Cielo Blue’
• Salvia ‘Eveline’
• Salvia forsskaolii
• Salvia glechomifolia
• Salvia greggii ‘Lowry’s Peach’
• Salvia greggii ‘Wild Thing’
• Salvia guaranitica ‘Black and Blue’
• Salvia guaranitica ‘Blue Ensign’
• Salvia holwayi
• Salvia involucrata ‘Hidalgo’
• Salvia involucrata ‘Mulberry Jam’
• Salvia x jamensis ‘Pat Vlasto’
• Salvia leucantha x elegans ‘Anthony Parker’
• Salvia ‘Madeline’
• Salvia melissodora (Yucca Do Form)
• Salvia mexicana ‘Compton’s Form’
• Salvia mexicana ‘Limelight’
• Salvia mexicana ‘Tula’
• Salvia microphylla
• Salvia microphylla ‘Dennis’ Pink’
• Salvia microphylla x greggii ‘Red Velvet’
• Salvia microphylla ‘Hoja Grande’
• Salvia microphylla ‘San Carlos Festival’
• Salvia microphylla ‘Wild Watermelon’
• Salvia moorcroftiana x indica
• Salvia nemorosa ‘Amethyst’
• Salvia nemorosa ‘Caradonna’
• Salvia nemorosa ‘Negrito’
• Salvia nemorosa ‘Rosenwein’
• Salvia nemorosa ‘Sensation Deep Rose’
• Salvia nubicola
• Salvia ‘Phyllis’ Fancy’
• Salvia ‘Pozo Blue’
• Salvia pratensis ‘Swan Lake’
• Salvia pratensis ‘Sweet Esmeralda’
• Salvia pratensis ‘Twilight Serenade’
• Salvia przewalskii
• Salvia ‘Purple Majesty’
• Salvia reptans
• Salvia reptans West Texas Form
• Salvia sclarea ‘Vatican White’
• Salvia semiatrata
• Salvia ‘Silke’s Dream’
• Salvia sinaloensis
• Salvia uliginosa
• Salvia ‘Ultra Violet’
• Salvia urica
• Salvia verticillata ‘Purple Rain’
• Salvia ‘Waverly’

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