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Ultra Violet Salvia

Salvia 'Ultra Violet' PP#21411

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• Salvia x 'Ultra Violet' is a great new cold-hardy Salvia greggii hybrid with showy violet-pink colored flowers
• This Sage selection has demonstrated exceptional cold hardiness and it blooms all season beginning in early summer
• ‘Ultra Violet’ thrives in full sun and heat. Drought resistant/drought tolerant perennial plant (xeric)
• A Lauren Springer Introduction. A 2023 Plant Select® selection

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Description

18-20" tall x 24-28" wide. You'll enjoy an ultra garden performance from this new hybrid Salvia selected by Lauren Springer and Scott Ogden. Discovered in their Ft. Collins garden, 'Ultra Violet' is a hummingbird initiated cross between blue flowered Salvia lycioides and rose-pink Salvia greggii. The dark green foliage and copious violet-pink flowers make this plant a standout in the xeriscape. For three years now, the plant has grown beautifully after surviving erratic USDA zone 5b (-10 to -15 ° F) winters. Blooming starts in late July and continues until October frost! Select a hot, full sun location with any lean-loam or clay-loam soil that is well drained. Its aromatic foliage is very rabbit and deer resistant. During fall garden clean-up, wait to cut back the plants until spring for improved cold hardiness. Once the time is right, shear back by one-third of the plant’s height. Combine it with Hymenoxys acaulis or various Oenothera for a pleasing, xeric combination. Zones 5b-9. (cutting propagated)

This plant was patented and introduced by Lauren Springer and Scott Ogden, thanks to years of garden development, propagations, and hardiness trials. Lauren selected this cultivar from her Colorado garden and selected the name ‘Ultra Violet’ to distinguish this special cultivar. It became a Plant Select® selection in 2023.

Planting & Care

Tips For Growing Salvia

Salvia (commonly referred to as ‘Sage’) represent a huge family of ornamental plants that attract a variety of pollinators to their nectar rich flowers. They are resistant to deer and rabbits.

  1. Plant in full sun.
  2. Plant native Western Salvia varieties in soil that is low fertility and well-drained.
  3. Plant Old World Salvia in a wide range of soils (loams, sand) including clay.
  4. Many spring-flowering varieties of sage will re-bloom in fall if deadheaded after the first bloom.
  5. New transplants need regular irrigation their first growing season to establish themselves. Once established they will need regular, deep irrigation during hot, dry weather.
  6. During fall garden clean-up, wait to cut back the plants until spring for improved cold hardiness.
  7. In colder USDA zones (zone 6 and below) it is essential to give Native Southwestern and Southwestern hybrids protection from the extreme cold their first couple winters in the garden. Mound up pine needles or fallen autumn leaves over and around the base of the plant.

Western Native Salvia: : It is from the Western US that we find our most beautiful native salvia species. For attracting hummingbirds, there are no finer flowers than the Western native sages. Typically, this group of Salvia prefer ‘lean’ (not very fertile), well drained soils. They will grow in dry clay conditions in arid climates but will rot out in clay soils where there is more than about 15 to 18” of precipitation annually.

Western Salvia include:

  • Salvia greggii - ‘Furman’s Red’, ‘Cold Hardy Pink’
  • Salvia hybrids - ‘Maraschino’, ‘Raspberry Delight’, ‘Ultra Violet’ and ‘Burgundy Seduction’.
  • Salvia pachyphylla and Salvia dorrii is recommended for arid western gardens.
  • Salvia azurea and Salvia reptans - Early fall bloomers with excellent cold hardiness.

To get established in USDA zones 5 & 6, Western Salvia (noted above) must be planted in spring or early summer, not in the fall. Protect your new plants over their first winter or two in your garden. Cover each plant with a generous pile of clean straw or pine needles. This allows the plant's crown (junction of root and branches) to mature and obtain maximum cold hardiness.

Old Wolrd Salvia: The Old World Salvia include some of the very best, most durable, longest-lived perennials. These salvia are an excellent choice for gardeners across most of the United States. ‘Old World’ Sages bloom primarily in shades of blue, pink and white. They are well adapted to cold climates and a wide range of soils including clay. The European Salvia are incredibly attractive to honey bees, many of our native bees and bumble bees as well as butterflies.

Old World varieties include:

  • Salvia syslvestris'Lyrical Rose', 'May Night', 'Little Night', 'Caradonna' and 'Marcus'.
  • Salvia daghestanica
  • Salvia verticiliata

More in-depth guidance for growing Salvia:Planting Nectar Rich Salvia to Attract Pollinators to the Garden

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Key Features

Light Requirements

  • Full Sun

Water Tolerance

Low-Water

Bloom Time

Mid summer to fall

Advantages

  • Attracts Hummingbirds
  • Native
  • Long Bloom Time
  • Easy To Grow
  • Low Maintenance
  • Fragrant
  • Container Planting
  • Deer Resistant
  • Rabbit Resistant

Additional information

Mature Height

18-20" tall

Mature Spread

24-28" wide

Soil Type

  • Low Fertility Soil
  • Well-Drained Soil

Soil Moisture

  • Waterwise

Planting Time

  • Fall

Awards

Plant Select®

Native To

North America

Growing Zones

  • Zone 5
  • Zone 6
  • Zone 7
  • Zone 8
  • Zone 9

Ships As

Potted Plant

Can Send To PO Box

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Overall rating: 4.6 / 5 from 20 reviews.

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Blooms visible in two weeks in cold October

"This was our first order and we couldn't be more pleased! Ultraviolet Salvia arrived cleverly packed and healthy. We wanted to add some purple salvia alongside some larger red and pink obtained locally and planted in the spring. Our two tiny Ultra violets were received and planted about two weeks ago, and our weather turned from sunny to torrential rains this weekend. Some purple just caught my husband's eye, and sure enough, we have blooms! Happy plants, happy customers."

— Small I. (5/5)

Excellent Plant!

"Vibrant blooms from Spring until Fall."

— Mitchell D. (5/5)

Sad

"Sad to see that none of three plants came back in spring after the fall planting"

— Floweraddict (1/5)

My hummingbirds loved it, great plant and healthy

"Probably not for everyone, for Southwest Gardner wherever you can fit in. When photographing other plants and this peeks through is lovely, looks planned. I mostly plant them for my hummers. In Arizona we are limited in what we can grow, this grows well!"

— Sandy (5/5)

Healthy Plant, thriving in Zone 5 Iowa

"I planted some starter plants of Ultra Violet Salvia in the fall 2023 and am delighted to say they survived our Zone 5 central Iowa winter. So I order several more in Spring 2024 to add to my large hummingbird garden. Because they survived the first winter, I am confident they will be a happy addition to my flower garden. #sweepstakes"

— Iowa G. (5/5)

I would buy this product again!

"I use this product as a border in a large area."

— Jo J. (5/5)

Really hoping it holds up to it's hardiness rating

"First year for this plant, and the first year it has been very impressive. it's grown faster and flowered more than any other plant I purchased from HCG this season, and it just keeps filling out…So, I do hope these over winter, but if not, they were worth their price just as an annual. It does have a nice compact, round shape, and the violet flowers pair great with 'shimmer' evening primrose, or engelmann's Daisy. I'm honestly… shocked, by how much the hummingbirds love this plant. You always hear ""bright red, orange, or pink to attract hummingbirds"", but I have some salvia gregii'furmans red' and 'wild thing' in the same part of the yard, as well as the bright red penstemon'rubycunda', and 'orange carpet creeping hummingbird trumpet' but all the hummers spend wayyyyy more time at these, not sure why, I know hummingbirds generally prefer plants that are absent of bees, and sorry, but at least in my experience- bees don't use this plant whatsoever(they probably would if there was little else around for them though). The hummingbirds just love it so much though, it's crazy."

— Oscarflip (5/5)

Gorgeous

"Bought this in May and it has grown more than ten size it was when it arrived. Looks great. Would definitely buy more."

— PaperDiva (5/5)

Love the color!

"We had a wet winter in Boise and my five five-year-old ultra violet sage plants died :( I replaced them with catmint. These ultra-violets are extraordinarily pretty - I love them! Keep them dry!"

— Mollyheiss@yahoo.com (4/5)

Pretty flowers and foliage

"All six plants arrived in good shape although three of them had to wait in their shipping pots for a while. We had a very wet spring along the Front Range so prepping the new garden beds was delayed. All of the plants have been in the ground now for about eight weeks and are growing nicely. The flowers are beautiful but not plentiful in this first year so I look forward to seeing how they look next year. I'll keep up the supplemental watering a couple times a week until the weather cools off. I'm hoping that the plants will be hardy in our zone 6 yard."

— Westy G. (5/5)

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