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Teucrium hyrcanicum

Common Name: Purple Tails
Bloom Color: Purple
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 24"
Description:

Masses of purple spikes over dark green aromatic foliage, borders, perennial containers.


Salvia pachyphylla

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Common Name: Giant Flowered Purple Sage
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 36"
Mature Width: 30"
Description:

Aromatic silver foliage. Needs good drainage. Woody perennial.


Salvia leucanthum

Common Name: Mexican Bush Sage
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 30"
Description:

New plant in 2009. Nice, large purple bloom, strong fragrance.


Salvia farinacea

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Common Name: Evolution
Bloom Color: Violet/Blue
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Description:

Intense violet-bluespikes in showy contrast over glossy green foliage. Thick spikes are densely packed over well branched plants.


Perovskia atripicifolia

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Common Name: Russian Sage
Bloom Season: All Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 48"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:

deep rooted,heat loving,xeric, any soil,leave stems on through winter- then cut back to 12-18" in spring. Slowly spreading.


Mirabilis multiflora

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Common Name: Desert Four o' clock
Bloom Season: Summer-All
Bloom Color: Purple
Water Needs: Almost No Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 24"
Mature Width: 48"
Description:

Mounding, Brilliant blooms at different times of the day for a long season, dies to ground in winter. Reseeds a little too much. Covers 4 ft.


Leucophyllum zygophyllum

Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Violet
Water Needs: Almost No Water Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 36"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:

Gray-green leaves, slightly cupped. Give good drainage. Do not shear into hedge, but can prune branches back hard.


Garden Notes: Shearing reduces blooms of Leucophyllums. Shear branches back hard in spring if needed to rejuvenate older plants. They will be bare for a short time, but will recover quickly.

Leucophyllum langmaniae

Common Name: Rio Bravo
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Lavender
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 60"
Mature Width: 60"
Description:

ZONE 8!? PLANT IN WARM MICRO CLIMATE- May not make it here. One reliable source says it is ok. Tighter rounded habit. Better for a more formal look. Nice rich green leaves.


Leucophyllum laevigatum

Common Name: CHIHUAHUAN SAGE
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Lavender
Water Needs: Almost No Water Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 48"
Mature Width: 60"
Description:

Open, angular growth to 4 ft.x5ft. Tiny, dark green leaves, profuse lavender flowers.


Lavandula angustifolia 'Lavender Lady'

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Common Name: Lavender
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Lavender
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:

All American Selection Early flowering- lavender blue Needs good drainage, compact clay is deadly.Mix in course compost.