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Rockin'® Deep Purple II
Salvia
Purple heat tolerant salvia flowers, each with a black calyx, grow on tough plants. Pollinators adore this purple salvia plant. It attracts hummingbirds, bees and butterflies as a pollinator friendly salvia.
| Blossom Color | Black, Purple |
| Bloom Season | Planting To Hard Frost |
| Exposure | Part Sun to Sun |
| Height | 8-24 in |
| Width | 24-36 in |
| Spacing | 18-24 in |
| Container Sizes | 104, 104 Spacer, SE32 |
| Hardiness Zones | 9, 10, 11 |
| Wildlife Attracted | Bees,Butterflies,Hummingbirds |
| Wildlife Deterred | Deer |
| Features | Purple heat tolerant salvia flowers, each with a black calyx, grow on tough plants. Pollinators adore this purple salvia plant. It attracts hummingbirds, bees and butterflies as a pollinator friendly salvia. |
| Adaptable as a Houseplant | No |
| Bog Plant | No |
| Is Disease Resistant | No |
| Drought Tolerant | Yes |
| Edible | No |
| Erosion Control | No |
| Fragrant Flower | No |
| Fragrant Foilage | No |
| Heat Tolerant | Yes |
| Native to North America | No |
| Salt Tolerant | No |
| Succulent | No |
| Water Plant | No |
| Uses |
Use this long blooming salvia plant in containers and landscapes. This plant is a pollinator attracting machine, beloved by pollinators of many types as a pollinator friendly salvia. |
| Maintenance Notes |
This is a wonderful annual Salvia (except in frost free zones, where it is perennial) compact and richly colored it is easy and trouble free. It is sterile so it will not set seed and that means it will just bloom, and bloom and bloom all season without stopping as a purple salvia plant. You can easily trim to keep the shape or size where you want it, and it will branch out and become even thicker and more full of heat tolerant salvia flowers. Regular watering and fertilizing will keep the purple salvia plant at maximum color and growth but it is amazingly tough and once established in a pot of the garden will tolerate lower levels of food and water. However, severe drought will cause lower leaves to drop and if this happens, give this long blooming salvia plant a quick haircut removing the upper 1/3 of growth and once it's back to normal watering it will fill back in. |
