Blue Jean Baby Russian Sage Plant

Blue jean baby russian sage.

Blue jean baby russian sage plant. Compact bushy mound with fragrant silver foliage. Its late season flower spikes of lavender blue have purple calyxes that support and protect the blooms. It s not so heavy and won t flop over. The lovely delicate looking spikes are complemented by the attractive finely cut leaves and silvery stems.

Russian sage can sometimes lodge or split its long beautiful stems toppling over instead of standing tall in the garden bed. Yep we re singing it too. Perovskia atriplicifolia commonly called russian sage is a woody based perennial of the mint family which typically grows 2 4 less frequently to 5 tall and features finely dissected aromatic when crushed gray green leaves on stiff upright square stems and whorls of two lipped tubular light blue flowers tiered in branched terminal panicles 12 15 high. There s a lot of things going for russian sage the savvy gardener can benefit from.

It blooms from midsummer all the way into fall so it ll provide some late season food for your neighborhood s bees and butterflies. Blue jean baby russian sage pp 29281 is a compact selection of russian sage that gives you beautiful lavender blue spires of late summer color with a more manageable size in the landscape. Gray green foliage has a piney sage like scent and contrasts perfectly with those pollinator attracting blooms and it s highly deer resistant. We like its sage like herbal perfume but deer aren t big on the scent.

That s why we like the compact habit of blue jean baby. Blue jean baby is heat and drought tolerant and perfectly sized for most garden spaces. It is big in the eco friendly garden. Bees and butterflies will thank you.

Blue jean baby one of the earliest perovskia to bloom is stunning when paired with rudbeckia and echinacea. Blue jean baby russian sage perovskia atriplicifolia blue jean baby plant patent applied for sku 42962 a shorter compact variety that is full and vigorous in the landscape with upright stems that resist flopping.