Annual Sage: Purple Organic Seed
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100 Organic Purple Annual Sage Seeds [approx]
Name: Annual Sage: Purple
Latin Name: Salvia viridis
Plant Type: Annual
Plant Height: 40-60 cm
Description: Purple Annual Sage produces beautiful, large purple flowers. They make very good cut flowers due to their long stems. Cutting them also promotes the plant to produce even more flowers. Bees find this plant particularly attractive. Also well known by its old latin name Salvia horminum.
Seed Origin: Netherlands
Sowing: March to May
Flowering: July to September
How To Grow Purple Annual Sage From Seed: Start Annual Sage indoors from March to April. Using seedling modules or small pots, sow a pinch of seed in each cell/pot. When the seedlings establish, thin to leave only the strongest one in each cell/pot. Transplant out to the garden when frost risk has passed, leaving a spacing of 20cm between each plant.
Alternatively, sow directly outside from late April to May when the risk of frost has passed.
Purple Annual Sage makes a beautiful cut flower. Cutting the flowers from the plant will encourage it to grow more. It is a very attractive plant to bees. Also well known by its old latin name Salvia horminum.