• Add vibrant color to your garden with NSC Salvia horminum Blue Monday, an ornamental annual prized for its striking blue bracts and long-lasting blooms. Easy to grow and highly decorative, this variety is perfect for garden beds, borders, pots, and cut flower arrangements.
• Appearance: Produces aromatic, long-lasting blue-purple bracts (modified leaves) on tall spikes, providing a strong vertical element.
• Growth Habit: Vigorous, quick-growing, and branching, reaching about 2 feet (24 inches) tall and 1 foot wide.
• Uses: Ideal for beds, borders, containers, and as fresh or dried cut flowers.
• Attracts: Bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.
• Resistant to: Deer and rabbits.

Growing Conditions:

• Light: Full sun to partial shade.
• Water: Moderate water, requires well-drained soil.
• Soil: Tolerates various soils (chalk, loam, sand).
• Germination: Seeds need light to germinate; sow shallowly.
• Temperature: Ideal germination around 16-18°C (65-75°F).
• Care: Deadheading spent spikes encourages more blooms; easy and low-maintenance.