Two seasons of silver sage

Silver sage , a biennial ( Salvia argentea , USDA Hardiness Zones 5 - 8) , is most commonly shoot in its first season , when it flaunts beefy , extravagantly silvern and muzzy leave in a modest rosette . It ’s a sodding foil for finer textures and shines at the border of garden bottom . But in its second year , it sends up flashy , exuberant cloud of bright - white flowers that are a good enough reason alone to grow this works . Silver salvia prefers full sunshine to mottle shade and moist , well - drain grunge . For honorable results , plant a few every year , though you may be capable to ekk another twelvemonth out of your plants by deadheading them pronto . ( flower photo taken in the garden of Laura Livengood Schaub in San Jose , California )

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