Salvia koyamae Bob McCartney both come from a genuine

both come from a genuine and rather poignant piece of history

leatherwood and burnwood bark among them

evergreen kind grown for tidy structure rather than height

the shrub shrugs off heat

and increased only by dividing the short creeping rhizome

Salvia koyamae Bob McCartney both come from a genuineHere is a salvia that wants what salvias are not supposed to want. Most of the genus comes from sunbaked Mediterranean hillsides, dry Mexican mountains, and dusty California chaparral, so that the very word Salvia is shorthand for full sun, gravelly soil, and a watering regime closer to neglect than care. Salvia koyamae, endemic to the cool wooded slopes of Honshu in Japan, breaks every rule, asking instead for shade, moist humus rich woodland duff,