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Products > Salvia x jamensis 'Golden Girl'
 
Salvia x jamensis 'Golden Girl' - Golden Girl Sage

Note: This plant is not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.  
Image of Salvia x jamensis 'Golden Girl'
 
Habit and Cultural Information
Category: Perennial
Family: Lamiaceae (Labiatae) (Mints)
Origin: Southwest (U.S.) (North America)
Flower Color: Peach
Bloomtime: Spring/Fall
Parentage: (S. greggii x S. microphylla?)
Height: 2-3 feet
Width: 2-4 feet
Exposure: Full Sun
Summer Dry: Yes
Irrigation (H2O Info): Low Water Needs
Winter Hardiness: 15-20° F
Salvia x jamensis 'Golden Girl' (Golden Girl Sage) - This compact subshrub to 2 feet tall by 3 feet wide with 1/2 long elliptic dark green leaves that have a pleasant scent when bruised and butter yellow flowers with an orange blush on the upper exterior 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.

This plants parentage actually is unknown but is so similar to plants in the Salvia x jamensis group that most have used this name for the plant. It was a spontaneous seedling hybrid discovered by Nevin Smith in 2005 at Suncrest Nursery in Watsonville, California where it was growing within crops of Salvia greggii, Salvia microphylla and hybrids between these two species, which are called Salvia x jamensis. In the Suncrest Nurseries listing they considered it a third generation hybrid that combines the best features of Salvia greggii and those of the S. x jamensis group. It is shorter and slower-growing than a typical Salvia greggii, and extremely compact with heavier blooming than most plants in the group and is noted as having excellent long-blooming garden performance and responding well to pruning. 

The information about Salvia x jamensis 'Golden Girl' that is displayed on this web page is based on research conducted in our nursery's horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We will also include observations made about this plant as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We also incorporate comments that we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they share cultural information that aids others growing this plant.

 
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