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. 

This information about Salvia 'Firescape' displayed is based on research conducted in our horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We also will relate observations made about it as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we receive from others and we welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they can share any cultural information that would aid others in growing it.