Caradonna Pink Inspiration Sage Plants

Caradonna Pink Inspiration Sage Plants

Caradonna Pink Inspiration sage is a stunning pink version of the original Caradonna. It produces wonderful pink spikes of flowers that contrast beautifully with its purple-black stems. To 50cm tall.

Browse our range of Salvia varieties or all of our perennial plants.

Features

• Colour: Soft pink flowers on violet-purple stems.
• Flowering: June-October
• Foliage: Mid green
• To 50 x 30cm
• Full sun, sheltered site
• Any well drained soil, likes chalk
• RHS Plants for Pollinators
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

Growing Caradonna Pink Inspiration Sage

Salvias need close to full sun, and will grow near the coast in exposed locations. They're fully hardy, although their flowering season will be shortened somewhat in cold and windy places. They're happy on chalk, and like a light, well-drained but moist soil enriched with humus that doesn't remain wet in winter, so heavy clay isn't good. They're perfect for a Mediterranean or gravel garden, and are great in large containers. Established plants are drought resistant, but still want fairly consistent moisture in dry summer periods to flower really well.
They're perfect for a Mediterranean or gravel garden, and are great in large containers.

Deadhead promptly to get the most from the flowering season. Leave the withered foliage on the plants overwinter for protection, and trim them after the last spring frost, right down to new growth.

Mulch lightly every year or two, ideally after a heavy spring rain when the soil has warmed up. Salvias don't need much fertility, so a little help goes a long way.

Garden Design Ideas

A tall salvia good for structure in any design and since it's so closely related to Salvia Caradonna the two would make a winning combination, paired together in a large planter. The pink flowers would also compliment Achillea millefolium 'Cerise Queen' alongside the annual Cosmos 'Purity'. For something dramatic rose wise, plant together with Rosa Cardinal de Richelieu.