May night salvia

Want to extend the bloom time of your May Night Salvia? Learn how to deadhead the flowers to get more blooms! This easy guide will show you how to extend the flowering season and create a non-stop flower show in your garden.

Plant trial results for these newer salvia varieties show that fleeting blooms and unruly habits are a thing of the past. Learn more, here.

Salvia is a genus of plants in the mint family that consists of over 900 species. Some salvia plants, like common garden sage (Salvia officinalis) and

May night salvia plants (Salvia sylvestris) are richly colored flowers that bloom throughout the summer. Learn to grow these perennials with this easy guide.

Find May Night Sage (Salvia x sylvestris 'May Night') in Red Wing Lake City Goodhue Maiden Rock Ellsworth Minnesota MN at Sargent's Nursery (Perennial Salvia, Salvia x superba)

Salvia May Night with Catmint in Foreground | Piedmont Master Gardeners

Here's a list of our all-time favorite tried-and-true long blooming perennials with extended bloom time and low maintenance requirements.

One of the earliest hardy Salvia to bloom, multiple award-winner Sage 'Mainacht' or 'May Night' (Salvia x sylvestris) has been in cultivation for 30 years and has become quite a standard. Extremely showy, it displays stunning spikes of rich, violet-blue flowers which pleasantly contrast darker bracts. They appear in late spring and bloom for weeks, often throughout the summer.

Below you can shop our entire inventory of common and unusual varieties of shade perennials, sun perennials, grasses, groundcovers, and hosta. Plants are listed by botanical name, but you can search our site using common names.