Mexican SAGE Subtropical Butterfly Hummingbird Garden Purple White Flowering Live Shrub Plant Starter Size 4 Inch Pot Emerald R

Mexican Sage is low growing bushy small shrub, that is suitable outdoors in subtropical climates and frequently grown as an annual or potted plant in colder area. In Zone 8 it typically freezes back to ground and resprouts from the roots in the Spring. It grows in a loose spreading mound of silvery stems with lance shaped willow like leaves, that are somewhat puckered along the top vein and have a soft, wooly appearance to the underside. Mexican Sage begins flowering late in the summer and blooms until the first frost knocks it back. The flowers are white and emerge from fuzzy soft calyxes that are bright lavender, to blue toned purple, that grow along gracefully arching stems. It is a profuse, long lasting and showy bloomer, and one of the few salvias that is suitable for cut flowers or dried arrangements. The calyxes will hold their bright color after drying. The long arching fuzzy white stems that hold the bi colored inflorescence tend to wave above the main body of the plant.