Salvia 'Amistad' Pot Size:3litre or left on as winter

or left on as winter decoration and food for birds

raised beds and greenhouse trays)

Gertrude Jekyll is one of the earliest English roses to flower

Minimal maintenance reuired other than picking off the occasional dead leaf

Salvia 'Amistad' Pot Size:3litre or left on as winterWith an extremely long flowering season, May to September, this salvia is one of our favourites. The distinctive silky, velvety flowers are rather large for a salvia shimmering an intense inky blue with almost black calyces and stems nod impressively on a frame that is much more robust than it looks. Like many semi tender salvias it needs a sheltered and sunny spot in well drained soil, but given this, mulched well annually and being trimmed only in