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Products > Salvia 'Allen Chickering'   Salvia 'Allen Chickering' - Sage     [2nd Image] Habit and Cultural Information Category: Shrub Family: Lamiaceae (Labiatae) (Mints) Origin: California (U.S.A.) Evergreen: Yes Flower Color: Lavender Bloomtime: Spring/Summer Parentage: (S. clevelandii x S. leucophylla) Height: 4-5 feet Width: 4-5 feet Exposure: Full Sun Summer Dry: Yes Irrigation (H2O Info): Low Water Needs Winter Hardiness: 15-20° F Salvia 'Allen Chickering' (Sage) - A dense shrub that grows to 5 feet tall with an equal or greater spread. Leaves are gray-green and approximately 1 inch long. The 2 foot long flower spikes of deep lavender flowers form on a tier of whorls in late spring and summer. For its best appearance this plant requires full sun, well-draining soil and only occasional summer watering and once established it requires even less watering. This Salvia is frost hardy to about 15° F. As with other native sages, 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 was the first cultivar selected at The California Botanic Garden (formally Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden). The first plant so named was discovered in 1937 by the chair of the garden's trustees, Allen Chickering, who reportedly found this hybrid between the Blue Sage, Salvia clevelandii and the Purple Sage, Salvia leucophylla, while on a morning walk in the botanic garden. Though this first plant was never propagated, a later nearly identical plant was selected in 1949 and released in 1955 as Salvia ‘Allen Chickering’.  The information about Salvia 'Allen Chickering' displayed on this page is based on research conducted in our nursery library and from online sources we consider reliable. We will also relate those observations made of this plant as it grows in our nursery gardens and in other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has additional information, particularly when they share cultural information that would aid others in growing it.     [MORE INFO]