Salvia koyamae Bob McCartney and increased only by dividing

and increased only by dividing the short creeping rhizome

more tolerant of chalk and drought

Come late winter and early spring

give 'Rubrum' room and a backdrop

Salvia koyamae Bob McCartney and increased only by dividingHere is a salvia that wants what salvias are not supposed to want. Most of the genus comes from sunbaked Mediterranean hillsides, dry Mexican mountains, and dusty California chaparral, so that the very word Salvia is shorthand for full sun, gravelly soil, and a watering regime closer to neglect than care. Salvia koyamae, endemic to the cool wooded slopes of Honshu in Japan, breaks every rule, asking instead for shade, moist humus rich woodland duff,