Though it blooms year round for me, recently Buchanan's sage (Salvia buchananii) has looked even nicer than usual. I have it in a 3 gallon Smart Pot (a type of fabric pot) where it has grown for nearly three years now and keeps looking better. Before it was in the pot I had it growing in the ground, where it didn't compete well with other plants and looked ragged, but soon after transplanting to the pot it perked up and took off.
From what I've read it was introduced to horticulture via England via Mexico City but was only recently found in the wild in a small location in central Mexico. It's a tender, evergreen perennial with thick dark green, shiny leaves, purplish stems, and large fuzzy fuchsia-colored flowers. I move it into my greenhouse whenever it dips below freezing.
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| The plant is about three feet wide now. It's actually growing in a fabric pot which is nested inside this terracotta pot. |
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| Backlit at sunset, the flowers appear more rosy. In mid-day, they appear more fuchsia. |
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| Each flower lasts only a day or so, but the plant continually sends up more spikes. I keep it deadheaded and prune out older stems. |
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