Joy Salvia Plants

Joy Sage Plants

Really well named, Salvia Joy is really a joyous plant to behold. Its delightful bicolour flowers are about as pretty as they come - half bright pink, half almost white, blush-pink. And they flower for most of the summer and early autumn, roughly from June right through to November at their maximum. The leaves are a bit greener than many other sages. As with all sages, they are loved by bees. To 1m x 50cm

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

Features

• Colour: Bicolour pink & white/blush
• Flowering: May-Nov
• Foliage: Deciduous, light green
• Height: 1m x 50cm
• Position: Sunny, sheltered
• Any well drained soil, likes chalk
• Good for large containers
• RHS Plants for Pollinators

Growing Salvia Joy

Salvias need lots of sun, but they don't mind the salty air of the coast, and they cope well with exposed locations. They're hardy, though their flowering season will be shorter in cold, windy places. All Sages are happy on chalk, and like a light, well-drained soil enriched with humus. They hate living in wet ground.

Established plants are drought resistant, but they'll still need watering in dry summer periods to flower really well - potted plants even more so.

Deadhead promptly to get the most from the flowering season, and prune out all the two-year-old growth (over about 1cm wide) in spring, ideally after the last frost, leaving the smaller shoots. Mulch lightly every year or two, after a heavy spring rain and when the soil has warmed up. 

Garden Design Ideas

Perfect for Mediterranean gravel gardens, or perhaps behind soft pale grasses at the front of in a fashionable prairie style border. You could also go "cottage garden" - plant Joy Sages with a Cosmos such as  Fizzy Rose, a lovely bi-colour pink, and combine with our Pretty Pinks and Regal Whites perennials collections. Salvias also work with agapanthus and alliums as well as echinacea. Consider salvias as part of your palette and the garden as your canvas.

History & Trivia

Great Comp Garden's diverse collection of salvias is curated by William Dyson, who has been cultivating them for decades, has won several Chelsea Flower Show awards, and has collaborated with the RHS Wisley on trials using his hybrids. He is a fan of their versatility: "If you've got a sunny spot, and as long as there's enough room, you can mix them in with a great variety of plants to produce lovely visual changes in texture, shape, size and colour.