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Salvia x jamensis 'Sierra de San Antonio' (Sage) - This sage grows to 30 inches tall by 3 feet wide with shiny elliptic leaves and pale-yellow flowers that are blushed with peach through much of the year with peak bloom in early summer until first frost in fall.
Plant in full sun in a well-drained soil and irrigate occasionally to regularly - tolerant of overhead irrigation. Cold hardy to at least 20° F. Repeat bloom is encouraged by light tip pruning through summer months and trim dry stems and shape plants in early spring.
In many respects Salvia x jamensis 'Sierra de San Antonio' is similar to one of the Salvia greggii cultivars but is actually considered to be a hybrid between Salvia greggii and Salvia microphylla. This hybrid cross was described by the English botanist James Compton after plants of this parentage were collected near the village of Jame in the Coahuila province in 1991. It can be found in areas were the two species overlap in the Sierra Madre Occidentale in Coahuila and neighboring San Luis Potosi between 6,500 and 9,800 feet.
In 1988, prior to Compton's naming of the hybrid cross between Salvia greggii and Salvia microphylla, Carl Schoenfeld and John Fairey collected plants in this area and introduced several at Yucca Do Nursery, including this cultivar, which we have been growing since 1994.
This information about Salvia x jamensis 'Sierra de San Antonio' displayed is based on research conducted in our horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We also will relate observations made about it as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we receive from others and we welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they can share any cultural information that would aid others in growing it.
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