Rockin'® Blue Suede Shoes™ Salvia hybrid

4.25” POT 

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Exposure

• Part Sun to Sun

Flower Season

• Spring
• Summer
• Fall

Mature Size

Height: 2'6" - 3'4"

Spread: 2' - 2'6"

• DETAILS

  FEATURES

  Light blue flowers each with a black calyx on tough plants. Hummingbirds, butterflies and bees all love it, which makes it great plant for pollinator gardens.

  Award Winner

  Continuous Bloom or Rebloomer

  Long Blooming

  Heat Tolerant

  Deadheading Not Necessary

  Drought Tolerant

  Attracts: 

  Bees

  Butterflies

  Hummingbirds

  Resists: 

  Deer

  CHARACTERISTICS

  Plant Type: 

  Annual

  Height Category: 

  Tall

  Garden Height: 

  30 - 40 Inches76cm - 1.0m

  Spacing: 

  18 - 24 Inches 46cm - 61cm

  Spread: 

  24 - 30 Inches 61cm - 76cm

  Flower Colors: 

  Black

  Blue

  Flower Shade: 

  Crisp Blue and Black

  Foliage Colors: 

  Green

  Foliage Shade: 

  Deep Green

  Habit: 

  Upright

  Container Role: 

  Thriller

  PLANT NEEDS

  Light Requirement: 

  Part Sun to Sun

  The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).

  Maintenance Category: 

  Easy

  Bloom Time: 

  Planting To Hard Frost

  Hardiness Zones: 

  9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11a, 11b

  Water Category: 

  Average

  Soil Fertility Requirement: 

  Average Soil

  Poor Soil

  Uses: 

  Border Plant

  Container

  Landscape

  Mass Planting

  Uses Notes: 

  Use in containers and landscapes. This plant is a pollinator attracting machine, beloved by pollinators of many types. 

  Maintenance Notes: 

  This is a wonderful annual Salvia (except in frost free zones) compact and richly colored it is easy and trouble free. It is sterile so it will not set seed and that means it will just bloom, and bloom and bloom all season without stopping.

  You can easily trim to keep the shape or size where you want it, and it will branch out and become even thicker and more full of flowers.

  Regular watering and fertilizing will keep the plant at maximum color and growth but it is amazingly tough and once established in a pot of the garden will tolerate lower levels of food and water. However, severe drought will cause lower leaves to drop and if this happens give it a quick haircut removing the upper 1/3 of growth and once it back to normal watering it will fill back in.

  Rockin'^® Blue Suede Shoes^™ Salvia hybrid 'BBSAL01301' USPP 32,694, Can 6,573

  PICTURES AND INFORMATION COPIED FROM PROVEN WINNERS