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Salvia 'Wendy's Wish' PP21,889 (Wendy's Wish Sage) - An evergreen shrub with compact growth to about 3 to 4 feet tall by 3 feet wide with mid-dark green colored leaves have serrated margins along dark maroon stems. Rising above the foliage from spring through fall are the unique tubular flowers with fluted tips. The flower corolla characteristics seem to more resemble Salvia buchananii in color, which is a deep purplish red and flower size with a flower calyx that is pinkish brown, more like Salvia splendens.
Plant in full sun. Irrigate occasionally to regularly. It is cold hardy to 25F. A very nice plant for a container or in border plantings.
Salvia 'Wendy's Wish' appeared as a spontaneous garden hybrid beneath a plant of Salvia mexicana 'Lolly' in the Victoria, Australia garden of Salvia enthusiast Wendy Smith. It was apparently Ms. Smith's wish that part of the proceeds from this plant go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, so the name “Wendy's Wish” is particularly fitting.
We first received this plant for trial from PlantHaven in September 2007 and it was released in the US at the beginning of the summer of 2009 with a debut at the spring PlantHaven Pack Trials in Carpinteria, CA. It received U.S. Plant Patent number 21,889 on April 26, 2011
The information displayed on this page about Salvia 'Wendy's Wish' PP21,889 is based on the research we conducted about it in our nursery horticultural library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include some of our own observations made about this plant as it grows in the nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we have received from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information that will aid others to better grow it.
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