Salvia farinacea Augusta Duelberg Zaire FYI: Bob Olson of Minnesota

FYI: Bob Olson of Minnesota is the past president of the American Hosta Society

Several years ago

back-of-the-border choice due to its size

not only for the terminal clusters of bright yellow

with well-established clumps surviving short durations of -3 degrees F

Salvia farinacea Augusta Duelberg Zaire FYI: Bob Olson of MinnesotaLeave it to Texas plantsman Greg Grant to have nothing better to do on a summer day than wander through old graveyards, where he stumbled on a clump of Salvia farinacea gracing the Texas gravesite of Augusta Duelberg. The cuttings rooted and Salvia 'Augusta Duelberg' was born. This splendid selection of the Texas native Salvia farinacea makes a compact 30" tall x 4' wide specimen, topped from May until frost with hundreds of spikes of silvery white