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Salvia 'Purple Majesty' (Purple Majesty Sage) - A large semi-shrubby perennial (subshrub) that grows 3 to 4 feet tall with an upright and somewhat open habit. The shiny ovate bright green leaves are broad, pointed and heavily textured with lightly serrated margins. The inch long deep purple tubular flowers, of a velvet-texture, are held in even darker calyces in whorls along an eight- to ten-inch-long spike in late summer- fall.
It grows best in full sun along the coast or light shade inland in a fast-draining soil with moderate to regular watering in a garden location that does not become too cold in winter, but is root hardy when mulched possibly as low as 10° F. A great plant that lends a wild tropical look to the garden.
Salvia 'Purple Majesty' originated at the Huntington Botanical Gardens as the result of a cross made by the gardens botanist Fred Boutin between Salvia guaranitica and Salvia gesneriiflora ‘Tequila’ with this plant selected for its garden merit and introduced by the garden around 1980. We grew this fun plant from 1993 until 2016.
Information displayed on this page about Salvia 'Purple Majesty' is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.
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