Salvia splendens 'Lighthouse Purple'

  • Product number: 552550
  • Origin: Mexico
  • Latin: Salvia splendens

The traditional red Salvia comes in many other shades, including this one with black-purple bracts and dark wine-red trumpet-shaped flowers. A dark beauty that first of all contrasts beautifully with the lower leaves and furthermore, of course, creates beautiful contrasts with "neighboring plants". Height 50-60 cm.

Names:
Latin: Salvia splendens
Dutch: Zwarte Salvia
English: Scarlet Sage

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Sowing method: Sow indoors from February to April, plant out from mid-May. Later sowing is also an option, for a fresh plant after the holidays... Pinch out the seedlings after the 2nd pair of leaves.

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Sowing/planting time:

  • February
  • March
  • April
  • May

Harvesting time:

  • June
  • July
  • August
  • September
  • October

Soil type:

  • All soil types

Cultivation location:

  • Indoors
  • Outdoors warm / sheltered

Position:

  • Sun
  • Flower colour: Dark wine red with blackish-purple bracts
  • Origin: Mexico
  • Average growth height: 30 to 60 cm
  • Annual or perennial: Annual
  • Attractive to insects: Various insects
  • Winter hardy: Not frost hardy
  • Ease of cultivation: Easy
  • Latin: Salvia splendens
  • Dutch: Black Sage
  • Also known as: Not applicable / Not known
  • English: Scarlet Sage
  • All year round

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