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Salvia 'Firescape' (Sage) - A low growing evergreen shrub with a mounding habit and growing to 18 inches tall by 3 feet wide with mauve pink flowers rising well above the foliage.
Plant in full sun in a well-drained soil and irrigate infrequently. Hardy to at least 15° F. An interesting and attractive low growing sage.
This cultivar is a presumed hybrid between Salvia 'Dara's Choice' and Salvia 'Pt. Sal Spreader' as our crops were grown from a single seedling that emerged between these two plants from our nursery that were planted in the Santa Barbara City Fire Departments Firescape Garden, and it shares traits with both of these plants. It is grayer in leaf color than Salvia 'Dara's Choice' but greener than Salvia 'Pt Sal Spreader' with the mauve flower color intermediate between the two as well. We took our first cuttings of this plant at the Firescape garden in 1992 and named and introduced it in our 1994 catalog and continued to grow it until 1999. It was a nice plant but there were other low growing sages we thought better such as the incredible Salvia 'Bee's Bliss' that we started growing in 1997.
The information about Salvia 'Firescape' that is displayed on this web page is based on research conducted in our nursery's horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We will also include observations made about this plant as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We also incorporate comments that we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they share cultural information that aids others growing this plant.
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