Salvia Pozo Blue

Identification

Salvia Pozo Blue, Grey Musk Sage.
Salvia Pozo Blue sage will grow in most of California. - grid24_3
Salvia Pozo Blue flower cluster. Still going strong at 21 years old.
Salvia Pozo Blue in an overwatered flower bed in Bakersfield. This sage will grow in most of California. - grid24_3
Salvia Pozo Blue out by Rio Bravo in Bakersfield. A overwatered lawn and they were alive? Pozo Blue is an amazing sage.
An American Beauty Butterfly on a Salvia Pozo Blue - grid24_3
A Painted Lady Butterfly on Salvia Pozo Blue.
A pale swallowtail on Salvia Pozo Blue. - grid24_3
Pozo Blue Sage with a Swallowtail butterfly.
Dogface Butterfly landing on a Salvia Pozo Blue, with his wings open. - grid24_3
Dogface butterfly checking the Salvia Pozo Blue for a landing spot.
Fritillary Butterfly on Salvia Pozo Blue. - grid24_3
Salvia Pozo Blue with a Fritillary Butterfly sipping in the sun
White-lined Sphinx moth, Hiles lineata on a Salvia Pozo Blue - grid24_3
The night life on Salvia Pozo Blue. A White-lined Sphinx moth.
Notice the Dogface butterfly on the other side? - grid24_3
Salvia Pozo Blue. This sage can look delicious through a lens.
Costa's Hummingbird on Salvia Pozo Blue. - grid24_3
Salvia Pozo Blue with a Costa's Hummingbird.
This was in August and there were a few flowers on the Pozo Blue - grid24_3
The last flower of Salvia Pozo Blue with an Anna's Hummingbird

Description

Salvia Pozo Blue is very drought tolerant three foot green-gray perennial. A hybrid of Salvia clevelandii and Salvia leucophylla. Its flowering period is about 6 weeks with violet-blue flowers. Foliage is very fragrant like Musk Sage (Salvia clevelandii).
Survives and looks good on rainfall from 7"-35". Summer watering has not been a problem here, but may shorten the plants life. Pozo Blue has been stable in a heavy clay and beach sand. We planted some in a sandy garden in Los Osos where the salt spray burned the foliage off of most of the other plants we planted and its lovely and shows no sign of burn. We have been told it is better looking than Salvia 'Allen Chickering' in form and foliage. Flowers are similar.
This is THE NATIVE BUTTERFLY BUSH. Weve seen about thirty species of butterflies and a lot of hummingbirds working the flowers. If you have the room for a butterfly hedge, go for it. Plant the sages about four foot apart for almost perfect fill-in. Mix a Few Salvia Brandegii, Salvia Celestial Blue or Salvia clevelandii Alpine for a longer flowering period, or just blast the neighborhood with fragrance and color with miles of Pozo Blue. This sage has also done well in the Anza Borrego Desert area, Bakersfield, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and most years, Portland.Salvia Pozo Blue is an
easy to grow,fragrant, beautiful sage.
A cold tolerant sage, to 5F degree with little or no damage. This sage froze to the ground at 0. I burned off the dead stuff and it started to grow back from the crown before we graded it off and put plants on it. (We're very gentle and loving to your plants, really!) Of 200 one gallon plants on hand with the December 1990 frost hit, 3 plants survived. That block had 13,000 plants in it, the three Pozo Blues were the survivors. If you drop below -4 or it stays frozen in the 20's (F) for days, it may not recover(or it may, this is one tough plant). Its structure does not support snow real well though. So if you get more than 3-4 inches of wet snow each year, the sage may be a little flat. Click here for more about California Sages.

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Characteristics

Salvia Pozo Blue Grey Musk Sage tolerates seaside conditions, alkaline soil, sand and clay.
Salvia Pozo Blue Grey Musk Sage is great for a bird garden and a butterfly garden.
Salvia Pozo Blue Grey Musk Sage's foliage color is gray, type is evergreen and has fragrance.
Salvia Pozo Blue Grey Musk Sage's flower color is violet and has a fragrance.

Communities

Communities for Salvia Pozo Blue Grey Musk Sage:Chaparral, Coastal Sage Scrub, Coastal Strand, Valley Grassland and Southern Oak Woodland.

Ranges for Salvia Pozo Blue

ph: 5.00 to 8.00
usda: 7 to 10
height[m]: 1.00 to 1.50
width[m]: 1.00 to 2.00
rainfall[cm]: 34.00 to 81.00

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