Salvia cacaliifolia
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Salvia cacaliifolia is a perennial shrub native to the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, and in Guatemala and Honduras, from 5000-8000 feet elevation. It has been available in the UK for many years, after being recognized by William Robinson
in 1933. Since the 1970s, it has been available in the U.S., after Strybing Arboretum and Huntington Botanical Gardens introduced it to California growers. It blooms mid-summer to autumn with many pure gentian-blue flowers, about .5 inches long, with a small green calyx. The leaves are grass-green in color with many hairs. The creeping rootstock spreads easily, forming clumps that are easily divided.
William Robinson (gardener)
William Robinson was an Irish practical gardener and journalist whose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that evolved into the English cottage garden, a parallel to the search for honest simplicity and vernacular style of the British Arts and Crafts movement...
in 1933. Since the 1970s, it has been available in the U.S., after Strybing Arboretum and Huntington Botanical Gardens introduced it to California growers. It blooms mid-summer to autumn with many pure gentian-blue flowers, about .5 inches long, with a small green calyx. The leaves are grass-green in color with many hairs. The creeping rootstock spreads easily, forming clumps that are easily divided.