Turtle Bay’s plants of the months are the long-blooming and water-wise, small to medium shrub Salvias – Salvia microphylla and Salvia greggii and their interspecific hybrid offspring Salvia x jamensis.

“They have an elegant contrast between foliage and flowers,” says Lisa Edicott, Turtle Bay’s Horticulture Manager.

Their flowers bloom in a rainbow of colors and bloom until frost if they are occasionally “deadheaded” (spent flowers and flower stems cut off) throughout the season.