Salvia leucantha x elegans 'Anthony Parker' JC Raulston Arboretum each division marked down the

each division marked down the center with a clean gold stripe

and Michael Dirr calls the plant "one of the finest

The plant is a seedling selected in 1986 by plantsman Tony Avent from a batch of pomegranates that had come through the brutal winter of 1983 to 1984

flat blooms for small

Our trees were grown from seed collected in Taiwan by our freind Mark Krautmann of Heritage Seedlings

Salvia leucantha x elegans 'Anthony Parker' JC Raulston Arboretum each division marked down theSalvia 'Anthony Parker' is a big, late blooming hybrid sage with a charming South Carolina origin. The plant arose as a chance seedling in the Beaufort garden of the plantswoman Frances Parker, a cross between Salvia leucantha 'Midnight' and the pineapple sage Salvia elegans, and Frances rescued the young seedling from the path of the mower and named it for her grandson Anthony, then a year old, in 1994. From that lucky reprieve came one of the best