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Unplugged® Pink
Salvia
This pink salvia plant is one of the best garden plants you can add to your garden. It will shrug off heat and humidity and just keep flowering as a heat tolerant flowering plant. The flowers are pink to fuchsia with a black calyx and very deep green foliage. It tops out at about 2 feet, perfectly sized for containers and great for the front to the middle of beds and as a thriller in pots.
| Blossom Color | Pink |
| Bloom Season | Planting To Frost |
| Exposure | Part Sun to Sun |
| Height | 8-12 in |
| Width | 12-20 in |
| Spacing | 12-20 in |
| Container Sizes | 104, 104 Spacer, SE32 |
| Hardiness Zones | 9, 10, 11 |
| Wildlife Attracted | Bees,Butterflies,Hummingbirds |
| Wildlife Deterred | Deer |
| Features | This pink salvia plant is one of the best garden plants you can add to your garden. It will shrug off heat and humidity and just keep flowering as a heat tolerant flowering plant. The flowers are pink to fuchsia with a black calyx and very deep green foliage. It tops out at about 2 feet, perfectly sized for containers and great for the front to the middle of beds and as a thriller in pots. |
| 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 |
Great in landscapes and containers for a pink salvia plant and ideal among drought tolerant annual flowers. |
| 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 as a salvia hybrid pink.. It is sterile so it will not set seed and that means it will just bloom, and bloom all season without stopping. You can easily trim the heat tolerant flowering plant to keep the shape or size where you want it, and it will branch out and become even thicker and more full of flowers. Regular watering and fertilizing will keep the plant at maximum color and growth but this pink salvia plant is amazingly tough and once established in a pot of the garden will tolerate lower levels of food and water as one of the most reliable drought tolerant annual flowers. However, severe drought will cause lower leaves to drop. If this happens give it a quick haircut removing the upper 1/3 of growth and once it is back to normal watering, it will fill back in as a strong salvia hybrid pink performer. |
| 2024 | Top Performer, Bronze Medal Winner - Champaign County Illinois Master Gardener Idea Garden |
| 2024 | Top Performer - Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden |
| 2023 | Rated #3 in the Top Ten - beds - North Carolina State, JC Raulston Arboretum |
| 2023 | Top Performer - University of Wisconsin - West Madison |
| 2023 | Perfect Score - Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens |
| 2023 | Perfect Score - Iowa State |
| 2023 | Top Performer - Boerner Botanical Garden |
| 2023 | Top Performer - Penn State University |
| 2023 | Leaders of the Pack - beds - North Carolina State, JC Raulston Arboretum |
| 2023 | Best of Breed - beds - North Carolina State, JC Raulston Arboretum |
| 2023 | Perfect Score - University of Tennessee - Jackson |
| 2023 | Top Performer - Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield |
| 2023 | Top Performer - Ohio State University - Columbus |
| 2023 | Top Performer - Oregon State University |
| 2023 | Top Performer - University of Tennessee - Knoxville |
| 2023 | Top Performer - UGA |
| 2023 | Top Performer - Texas Tech University |
| 2023 | Top Performer - University of Florida - Fort Lauderdale |
| 2022 | Top Performer - Mississippi State University - Crystal Springs |
| 2022 | Perfect Score - University of Tennessee - Knoxville |
| 2022 | Top Performer - University of Guelph |
| 2022 | Top Performer - University of Minnesota - St Paul |
| 2022 | Top Performer - Ohio State University - Columbus |
| 2022 | Top Performer - Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield |
| 2022 | Perfect Score - University of Minnesota - Grand Rapids |
| 2022 | Top Performer - University of Tennessee - Jackson |
| 2022 | Top Performer - Oregon State University |
| 2022 | Directors Select, Best Performance - Penn State University |
| 2022 | Silver Medal - Champaign County Illinois Master Gardener Idea Garden |
| 2022 | Top Performer - In Ground - South Dakota State - McCrory Gardens |
| 2022 | Top Performer - University of Wisconsin - West Madison |
| 2022 | Top Performer - Cornell University |
| 2022 | Top Performer - UGA |
| 2021 | Top Performer - Cornell University |
| 2021 | Top Performer - University of Wisconsin - West Madison |
| 2021 | Top Performer - Oregon State University |
| 2021 | Top Performer - Boerner Botanical Garden |
| 2021 | Top Performer - In Ground - Colorado State |
| 2021 | Top Performer - LSU - Hammond |
| 2021 | Top Performer - University of Tennessee - Knoxville |
| 2021 | Silver Medal - Champaign County Illinois Master Gardener Idea Garden |
| 2021 | Perfect Score - Ohio State University - Columbus |
| 2021 | Top Performer - Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield |
| 2021 | Director's Select & Best of Species - Penn State University |
| 2021 | Consumer Favorites - University of Tennessee - Jackson |
| 2021 | Top 10 scores in beds - North Carolina State, JC Raulston Arboretum |
| 2021 | Top Performer in Ground Annuals - South Dakota State - McCrory Gardens |
| 2021 | Top Performer - University of Georgia |
| 2021 | Perfect Score - Iowa State |
| 2021 | Top Performer - University of Laval |
| 2021 | Top Performer - Young's Plant Farm |
