Name: Perovskia atriplicifolia 'Prime Time'
Brand: Perovskia
SKU: pda822
Price: 6.9 EUR
Availability: InStock

Perovskia atriplicifolia 'Prime Time'

€6,90

Perovskia atriplicifolia 'Prime Time'

€6,90

Organic

Sustainable

Locally grown

🪴Standard: 9x9 cm pot

🚂 Ships across EU

🌱 Grown without pesticides or UV lamps

☀️ Full sun
💧 Drought tolerant
🌸 Long flowering season
🪴 Grows well in pots or in the ground
❄️ Hardy perennial

Flower Color: Light Blue, Lilac

Preferred Soil Type: Poor, Well-drained

Sunlight: Full sun

Growth Habit: Compact

Origine: Central Asia

Perovskia atriplicifolia 'Prime Time', or Russian sage, is grown for its long spikes of blue-lavender flowers carried on silvery stems, above finely cut, aromatic grey-green foliage.

The leaves are fragrant, silvery, grey-green and finely dissected.

The flowers can range anywhere from a mauvy-purple to blue in terms of color, they form spikes with dusky purple calyxes that will hold color after blooms fade. This makes them fantastic dry bouquet flowers.

This compact cultivar flowers generously from late summer through to the first frosts. Once established it's extremely drought-tolerant, making it ideal for dry borders, gravel gardens, or a Mediterranean-style planting.

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✂️Prune back to about 20cm in spring to encourage new growth

Sometimes classified under the genus Perovskia, and sometimes reclassified into the genus Salvia by botanists due to its close genetic relationship, this sub-shrub belongs to the Lamiaceae family.

It's native to the arid regions of Central Asia - Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Tibet - where it grows on poor, rocky soils. The genus was named in honour of Vasily Perovski, a 19th-century Russian general and military governor of the region with an interest in botany.

In its native Central Asia, the silvery, scented foliage of Perovskia has traditionally been used locally as an insect repellent and to scent living spaces.

In the West, the plant gained popularity relatively late, in the 20th century, riding the wave of gravel gardens and "dry" plantings inspired by steppe landscapes - a fitting botanical symbol of resilience and adaptation to increasingly arid climates, especially relevant in today's water-wise gardens.