Fashionista Midnight Model Sage
Salvia 'Midnight Model'
Walters Gardens
Fashionista Collection
$24.00
An attractive compact variety with a dense, upright habit, producing impressive spikes of fragrant, deep blue-violet flowers; an excellent garden performer on the cutting edge of perennial fashion
Features and Growing Tips
Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.
Landscape Qualities
Fashionista Midnight Model Sage is an herbaceous evergreen perennial with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its medium texture blends into the garden | but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.
Ornamental Qualities
Fashionista Midnight Model Sage has masses of beautiful racemes of fragrant blue tubular flowers with violet overtones rising above the foliage from late spring to early summer | which emerge from distinctive deep purple flower buds | and which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its tomentose narrow leaves remain green in color throughout the year.
Planting and Growing
Fashionista Midnight Model Sage will grow to be about 16 inches tall at maturity extending to 24 inches tall with the flowers | with a spread of 22 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant | individual plants should be spaced approximately 16 inches apart. It grows at a medium rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 5 years. As an evegreen perennial | this plant will typically keep its form and foliage year-round.
This plant does best in full sun to partial shade. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist growing conditions | but will not tolerate any standing water. It is considered to be drought-tolerant | and thus makes an ideal choice for a low-water garden or xeriscape application. It is not particular as to soil pH | but grows best in rich soils | and is able to handle environmental salt. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. Consider applying a thick mulch around the root zone in winter to protect it in exposed locations or colder microclimates. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. It can be propagated by division; however | as a cultivated variety | be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.
Plant Facts
Prefers full sun to partial shade
Deer Resistant
Keep moisture level dry to moist
Mature Size 16"(24"withtheflowers)Hx22"W
Cutflower Favorite
Flowers are blue with strong fragrance
Flowers from late spring to early summer
Attracts bees; butterflies; hummingbirds
Zone 6b
Likes well drained soil