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Products > Salvia brandegeei 'Pacific Blue'   Salvia brandegeei 'Pacific Blue' - Santa Rosa Island Sage Note: This plant is not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.   [2nd Image] Habit and Cultural Information Category: Shrub Family: Lamiaceae (Labiatae) (Mints) Origin: Channel Islands (North America) Evergreen: Yes Flower Color: Blue Bloomtime: Spring Height: 4-6 feet Width: 4-6 feet Exposure: Full Sun Summer Dry: Yes Irrigation (H2O Info): Low Water Needs Winter Hardiness: 10-15° F Salvia brandegei 'Pacific Blue' (Santa Rosa Island Sage) - Salvia brandegei comes from the Channel Islands off the California Coast and northern Baja California. It is a vigorous heavily-branched shrub that can grow 4 to 6 feet in height. The narrow dark green leaves have a wrinkled texture on top and are finely covered with white hairs underneath. The flowers, forming on tiered whorls, are typically a light lavender color but this selection from the Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens has dark lavender blue flowers. Plant in full sun and give little irrigation; it is very drought tolerant once established. Salvia brandegei tolerates a wide range of soils and is a durable long lived plant in the garden. Hardy to at least 15° F (Las Pilitas Nursery notes that the species can tolerate temperatures down to 0° F) To keep a dense and more attractive plant, cut back in the winter by about a third or more when young - once mature with woody stems, only tip prune. This plant, introduced by the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden in 2004, was selected from self sowed seedlings discovered in the garden near a Salvia brandegei collected from Santa Rosa Island. It is possibly a hybrid with another native salvia; Carol Bornstein, Director of the living collection at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden has speculated that the other parent might be Salvia munzii. What ever its parentage, this plant was very nice but it unfortunately did not sell well for us and we discontinued production in 2013. More information on this plant can be found on the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden's Plant Introduction Page.  Information displayed on this page about  Salvia brandegeei 'Pacific Blue' is based on the research conducted about it in our library and from reliable online resources. We also note those observations we have made of this plant as it grows in the nursery's garden and in other gardens, as well how crops have performed in our nursery field. We will incorporate comments we receive from others, and welcome to hear from anyone who may have additional information, particularly if they share any cultural information that would aid others in growing it.     [MORE INFO]