Perovskia atriplicifolia 'Sage Advice' Attracts Song Birds

Perovskia atriplicifolia 'Sage Advice' Attracts Song BirdsRussian sage is a widely used plant due to its beautiful texture, stately purple blue flowers, and ease of care. Sage Advice is a taller cultivar with broader leaves and boasting the darkest purple flowers to date. Selected for its strong and upright stems, and excellent flower density color. Airy blue green foliage appears in mid spring, growing quickly into As summer approaches thin stems reach up about a foot over the foliage producing dark purple

Sedum carry substance in their thick leaves and heavy stems

The dark green foliage provides excellent contrast to the golden blooms and remains healthy and attractive throughout the growing season when cultural requirements are met

Pruning should be done in winter or early spring

When the garden is at its bleakest and most gardeners have retreated indoors with their seed catalogs

have at least one witch hazel in the garden

when used in landscape as a specimen tree it gets a nice wide spread and will become a focal point to your yard

requiring a minimum of six hours of direct sunlight daily to achieve optimal flowering and maintain compact growth

and powdery mildew in humid conditions with poor air circulation

The large leaves emerge bright yellow and keep that color through most the season with attractive hints of green creeping in as summer moves along

Each plant has numerous branches of long-lasting color and the foliage is tidy bushy dark green

‘Top Fun’ tops out around 3-4 feet

A true multi-season plant with early dark colored foliage that will transform into a spectrum of bright colors that persist from mid-summer to late fall