Blue Flowered Salvias Picture Gallery
Blue flowers, especially true primary blues, are the gold standard in most gardens. They are rare. The genus Salvia includes some of the clearest and truest of blue blossoms. We grow the best of the best.
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Salvia x 'Bee's Bliss'
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Salvia cacaliifolia
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Salvia clevelandii 'Winnifred Gilman'
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Salvia corrugata
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Salvia x guaranitica 'Omaha Gold'
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Salvia japonica
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Salvia patens 'Blue Angel'
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Salvia sagittata
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Salvia sinaloensis
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Salvia uliginosa
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Salvia verticillata
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Salvia forsskaolii
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Salvia melissodora
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Salvia caymanensis
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Salvia x 'Big Swing'
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Salvia mexicana 'Limelight'
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Salvia x guaranitica 'Costa Rica Blue'
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Salvia guaranitica 'Blue Ensign'
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Salvia macrophylla 'Tall Form'
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Salvia patens 'Cambridge Blue'
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Salvia africana-caerulea
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Salvia glechomifolia
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Salvia chamaedryoides x 'Marine Blue'
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Salvia azurea
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Salvia brandegeei
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Salvia x 'Pozo Blue'
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Salvia chionophylla
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Salvia semiatrata
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Salvia somalensis
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Salvia vitiifolia
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Salvia chamaedryoides var. isochroma
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Salvia patens 'Oxford Blue'
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Salvia pomifera subsp. pomifera
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Salvia regeliana
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Salvia microphylla 'Mesa Azure'
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Salvia cedrosensis
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Salvia pitcheri grandiflora
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Salvia reptans
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Salvia x 'Celestial Blue'
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Salvia amplexicaulis
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Salvia stepposa
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Salvia mexicana 'Russell's Form'
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Salvia pachyphylla 'Blue Flame'
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Salvia nutans
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Salvia interrupta
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Salvia haematodes
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Salvia brandegeei x munzii 'Pacific Blue'
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Salvia arizonica 'Deep Blue'
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Salvia atropatana
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Salvia amethystina subsp. ampelophylla
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Salvia chrysophylla
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Salvia guaranitica 'Elk Argentina Skies'
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Salvia BODACIOUS 'Rhythm and Blues'
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Salvia retinervia
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Salvia x 'Elk Blue Note'
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Salvia rosmarinus 'Gorizia'
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Salvia rosmarinus 'Frank Krozek'
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Salvia deserta
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Salvia x 'Big Blue'
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Salvia aff. hians 'Super Elk Strain'
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Salvia scutellarioides 'Elk True Blue'
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Salvia miltiorrhiza 'Super Elk'
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Salvia forsskaolii var nana 'Elk Dwarf'
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Salvia x 'Elk Blue Moon III'
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Salvia officinalis 'Growers Friend'
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Salvia patens 'Guanajuato Seed Strain'
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Salvia aff. S. sagittata 'Elk Giant Form'
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Salvia COOL Periwinkle
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Salvia SALLYFUN™ Blue Lagoon
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Salvia patens 'Dot's Delight Seed Strain'
Related Blog entries for plants in the Blue Flowered Salvias Picture Gallery
Purples are cool yet quietly passionate. This includes African Violet 16-3520, a spring 2013 designer color created by the Pantone Corporation. Shades in the blue and purple color range are tranquil and soothing yet commanding, because they calm the garden. Here are a number of choices from our catalog that fashionably match Pantone's African Violet.
A love of birds can grow into a passion for gardening. The reverse is also true. Sometimes these passions result in the development of excellent plants, such as Salvia x 'Margie Griffith' -- a 2017 introduction at Flowers by the Sea Online Nursery. Margie Griffith Sage grows up to 96 inches tall and wide in bloom. In some parts of its USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 8 to 11 it feeds hummingbirds nearly year round.
You might expect the foliage of a plant called Anise-Scented Sage (Salvia guaranitica) to smell robustly like licorice, which shares the same fragrance as anise. Some gardeners detect a hint of licorice after crushing a leaf, but many say the foliage merely smells sweet. These popular sages are native to Brazil where indigenous peoples used their leaves as a medicine. Flowers by the Sea grows many varieties in a wide range of sizes and flower colors
Plants don’t have voices but they have stories to tell, including tales of discovery. It’s easy to see why the early 18th century plant explorer Victor Jacquemont would have paused to collect the rare Salvia hians while traversing broad expanses of northwestern India. This second half of our article about the alluring species digs into its history.
For plant collectors, a mystique surrounds rare species like Salvia hians (Himalayan or Kashmir Sage). This is especially true when there is uncertainty about what the plant should look like. Perhaps the most famous image of S. hians is a 2012 photograph of UK plant collector Chris Chadwell next to an abundantly blooming stand of large violet-blue flowers with white lower lips. Why doesn’t the Flowers by the See variety of this rare species look exactly like the plant Chadwell found — a plant that seems to be the Holy Grail of Salvia collectors? We’ll do our best to explain.
Got shade? Go ahead and get blue about it in the garden. We'll hold your hand, listen to your concerns and help you pick just the right shady salvias in hues to match the 2013 designer colors Dusk Blue and Monaco Blue from Pantone.
Bog Sage is a terrific plant for damp soil and stormy weather, such as powerful "pineapple express" events.
Name | Mature height | Mature width | Flower color | Bract color | Exposure |
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Salvia x 'Bee's Bliss' | 1 to 2 feet | 1 to 2 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun |
Salvia cacaliifolia | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Vivid Purplish Blue | Strong Yellowish Green | Partial shade |
Salvia clevelandii 'Winnifred Gilman' | 3 to 4 feet | 3 to 4 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun |
Salvia corrugata | 5 to 6 feet | 5 to 6 feet | Deep Violet | Grayish Purplish Blue | Full sun |
Salvia x guaranitica 'Omaha Gold' | 3 to 4 feet | 3 to 4 feet | Strong Violet | Dark Purple | Partial shade |
Salvia japonica | 1 foot or less | 1 foot or less | Very Pale Purple | Light Yellowish Green | Partial to full shade |
Salvia patens 'Blue Angel' | 1 to 2 feet | 1 to 2 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Partial shade |
Salvia sagittata | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Vivid Purplish Blue | Grayish Purplish Blue | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia sinaloensis | 1 foot or less | 1 foot or less | Vivid Blue | Dark Purple | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia uliginosa | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia verticillata | 1 to 2 feet | 1 to 2 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia forsskaolii | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Strong Violet | Dark Red | Partial shade |
Salvia melissodora | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Light Violet | Moderate Yellowish Green | Full sun |
Salvia caymanensis | 1 foot or less | 1 foot or less | Brilliant Purplish Blue | Dark Red | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia x 'Big Swing' | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Vivid Violet | Grayish Purplish Blue | Partial to full shade |
Salvia mexicana 'Limelight' | 5 to 6 feet | 3 to 4 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia x guaranitica 'Costa Rica Blue' | 3 to 4 feet | 3 to 4 feet | Vivid Violet | Dark Grayish Purple | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia guaranitica 'Blue Ensign' | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Vivid Blue | Strong Yellowish Green | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia macrophylla 'Tall Form' | 3 to 4 feet | 3 to 4 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia patens 'Cambridge Blue' | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Light Blue | Strong Yellowish Green | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia africana-caerulea | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun |
Salvia glechomifolia | 1 foot or less | 1 foot or less | Strong Purplish Blue | Dark Purple | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia chamaedryoides x 'Marine Blue' | 2 to 3 feet | 3 to 4 feet | Deep Violet | Dark Purple | Full sun |
Salvia azurea | 1 to 2 feet | 1 to 2 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun |
Salvia brandegeei | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun |
Salvia x 'Pozo Blue' | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun |
Salvia chionophylla | 1 foot or less | 3 to 4 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia semiatrata | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Vivid Violet | Light Purple | Full sun |
Salvia somalensis | 3 to 4 feet | 3 to 4 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia vitiifolia | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Strong Purplish Red | Dark Red | Partial shade |
Salvia chamaedryoides var. isochroma | 1 foot or less | 1 foot or less | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun |
Salvia patens 'Oxford Blue' | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Vivid Purplish Blue | Strong Yellowish Green | Partial shade |
Salvia pomifera subsp. pomifera | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun |
Salvia regeliana | 1 to 2 feet | 1 to 2 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun |
Salvia microphylla 'Mesa Azure' | 1 foot or less | 1 foot or less | Strong Purplish Blue | Dark Red | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia cedrosensis | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Strong Purplish Blue | Light Greenish Gray | Full sun |
Salvia pitcheri grandiflora | 3 to 4 feet | 3 to 4 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia reptans | 3 to 4 feet | 3 to 4 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia x 'Celestial Blue' | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun |
Salvia amplexicaulis | 1 to 2 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Light Purple | Deep Purple | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia stepposa | 1 to 2 feet | 1 to 2 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia mexicana 'Russell's Form' | 6 feet plus | 5 to 6 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia pachyphylla 'Blue Flame' | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun |
Salvia nutans | 5 to 6 feet | 1 to 2 feet | Light Violet | Light Yellowish Green | Full sun |
Salvia interrupta | 1 to 2 feet | 1 to 2 feet | Light Violet | Moderate Yellowish Green | Full sun |
Salvia haematodes | 1 foot or less | 1 to 2 feet | Very Pale Purple | Moderate Yellowish Green | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia brandegeei x munzii 'Pacific Blue' | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Light Violet | Dark Red | Full sun |
Salvia arizonica 'Deep Blue' | 1 to 2 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Strong Violet | Strong Yellowish Green | Partial shade |
Salvia atropatana | 1 to 2 feet | 1 to 2 feet | Vivid Violet | Strong Purplish Red | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia amethystina subsp. ampelophylla | 5 to 6 feet | 3 to 4 feet | Vivid Violet | Strong Yellowish Green | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia chrysophylla | 1 to 2 feet | 1 to 2 feet | Brilliant Violet | Moderate Yellowish Green | Full sun |
Salvia guaranitica 'Elk Argentina Skies' | 5 to 6 feet | 3 to 4 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia BODACIOUS 'Rhythm and Blues' | 3 to 4 feet | 3 to 4 feet | Vivid Violet | Dark Grayish Purple | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia retinervia | 6 feet plus | 6 feet plus | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun |
Salvia x 'Elk Blue Note' | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun |
Salvia rosmarinus 'Gorizia' | 4 to 5 feet | 5 to 6 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun |
Salvia rosmarinus 'Frank Krozek' | 6 feet plus | 6 feet plus | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun |
Salvia deserta | 1 to 2 feet | 1 to 2 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia x 'Big Blue' | 2 to 3 feet | 1 to 2 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia aff. hians 'Super Elk Strain' | 2 to 3 feet | 3 to 4 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Partial shade |
Salvia scutellarioides 'Elk True Blue' | 1 foot or less | 4 to 5 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Partial to full shade |
Salvia miltiorrhiza 'Super Elk' | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Partial shade |
Salvia forsskaolii var nana 'Elk Dwarf' | 1 foot or less | 1 to 2 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Partial shade |
Salvia x 'Elk Blue Moon III' | 1 to 2 feet | 1 to 2 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia officinalis 'Growers Friend' | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun |
Salvia patens 'Guanajuato Seed Strain' | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia aff. S. sagittata 'Elk Giant Form' | 6 feet plus | 5 to 6 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia COOL Periwinkle | 4 to 5 feet | 3 to 4 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia SALLYFUN™ Blue Lagoon | 1 to 2 feet | 1 to 2 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun to partial shade |
Salvia patens 'Dot's Delight Seed Strain' | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet | Not yet defined * | Not yet defined * | Full sun to partial shade |