Salvia apiana Palm/Cycad and yellow spring flowers

and yellow spring flowers

Betulaceae

This hardy semi-shrub is a durable worker in the mixed border or container

Can be used as a screen or pruned into a small standard tree for the garden

and well-drained soil

Salvia apiana Palm/Cycad and yellow spring flowersAlso called bee sage, these salvias create bee heaven in spring to early summer when tall stems of fragrant white flowers stand above the foliage. An evergreen perennial, with lance shaped and aromatic, pale gray green, almost white leaves on shrub like stems to 3 4 ft tall and wide, this California native requires, sun, terrific drainage against winter's wet, and little summer water. Frost hardy to 0F, USDA zone 7 and lower, to zone 5, where winters