Salvia farinacea Cirrus White - seeds

Salvia farinacea 'Cirrus White' is a selection of compact, elegant, and generously flowering white-flowered meal sage. This plant, theoretically perennial, is grown as an annual in most regions. This variety offers superb spikes of fluffy white flowers that rise above silver foliage, creating a particularly refined colour combination. It blooms for many weeks between summer and early autumn. Decorative in flower beds, borders, and flower pots, it is also a very beautiful cut flower.

Salvia farinacea 'Cirrus White' is a plant of the lamiaceae family, like all sages. The species with blue-violet flowers is a perennial plant native to Texas and Mexico. Its low hardiness and rapid growth make it an excellent annual in most climates. The 'Cirrus White' cultivar has a more compact and bushy habit, forming tufts of 35-40 cm in all directions. It forms clusters of stems covered with green-grey foliage, composed of slightly toothed lanceolate leaves, covered on the underside with a white down. From July to October, upright and flexible spikes appear, covered with small white hairs adorned with pure white flowers. Meal sages get their name from their stems covered with a light bloom.

The 'Cirrus White' meal sage will be perfect paired with the 'Strata' variety, which is of equivalent size and blooms simultaneously. In flower beds, it can be associated with ground cover roses, Lobelia speciosa 'Kompliment Tiefrot', and Godetias 'Rembrant', for example. It can also be paired with grasses, 'Blanche' gauras, and backed by the silver foliage of 'Powis Castle' wormwood in a white garden. This plant also forms lovely borders, and when planted along pathways, it can be mixed with 'Yo Yo' snow-in-summer, which will carpet its base in a soft harmony of muted tones. Its floral spikes hold up well in a vase.