PLANTS OF SAGE ’PINK LIPS’ - SALVIA MICROPHYLLA ’PINK LIPS'

Curious and original variety of sage that will brighten up your garden with its special flowers! It's the pink and white version of 'Hot Lips' sage. It has two-color blooms that change color depending on the ambient temperature, pink and white or white or pink! Perfect for planters, pots or patios that also has medicinal properties.

Shrub up to 80cm tall, vigorous and branched. Thin and elongated branches, with small oval mint-scented green leaves that turn reddish in autumn. Striking bicolor flowers with half white and half pink petals that resemble pink lips, or can be white or pink. They contain nectar.

In spring the flowers are mostly white, bicolor in summer and intense pink in autumn.

Dig a hole at least two or three times as wide and deep as the root ball. Take out the plant from the container and loosen roots to allow them to spread out in all direction. Cut possible broken roots. Mix the soil extracted with a substrate and fill part of the hole with the mixture obtained. Place the plant in the hole and cover with the remaining mixture. Compact the soil around the plant and water thoroughly.