I meant to say Mystic Spires Salvia😼 the name escaped me.

So I looked at their website and it looks like they have only one type of blue salvia which they call 'Blue'...

https://www.burlake.com/product-page/4-salvia-blue

Close up of Salvia farinacea leaves so you can differentiate.

https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/mealycup-sage-salvia-farinacea/

I think, if you moved it somewhere shadier, you might lose that bronzed look of the foliage, Darragh. Anyways, I consider Dark Rosaleen to be a 'collectors plant' while I am a garden philistine. I really don't care for the doubles either. I do admit to adoring my auriculas...but I grow them as specimens...not in any sort of garden setting, where I can admire their ridiculous audacity. I used to do that whole 'auricula theatre' thing, displaying each in tiny terracotta pots (and even had a few of the farinaceous 'fancies' but these days, I allow them to spread in large, shallow clay pans while the stems grow this way and that...and when the show is over, I tuck them out of sight behind the greenhouse (along with the other pots of spring bulbs such as tiny narcissus and wild tulips.

If I had a bog garden, I would certainly grow a lot more of the tall, dark asiatics since discovering how easy most primulas are to grow from seed...but it is almost a desert here in the dry east, compounded with hopelessly lean soil. Great for the likes of tiny centaury, pulsatillas, pussytoes,, pinks and the smaller centaureas such as c.bella...but rubbish for attempting a decent primula collection.

As a kid, I was often shunted off to the Irish relatives in CLare and Mayo...where I swear, it rains every single day. MIsty, green and perfect for primroses of all kinds. You wouldn't believe the number of failed attempts at the likes of filipendulas, veronicastrums, eupatoriums I have endured...but alas, not to be unless you have a watering can or hosepipe welded to your wrist...

Oh, I am envious of your Pagodas. I had one once but the snails finished it off. Finally it dwindled to nothing and I, and it, gave up.

I always enjoy this ,'flowery mead' just up the road from me.

O, very lovely, Darragh. Erythroniums, when happy, seem to colonise very well indeed.

I have quite a few clusters of the pink/lilac vulgaris (sibthorpii) which I did try to keep separate from the ordinary pale yellows. Also does really surprisingly well in my dry soil. I was given one plant but they have spread around - never very sure whether the lilac ones are a different separate variety or just a spontaneous mutation. The ones in better soil are considerably less floriferous (with oversized leaves) than the primroses which grow in the more neglected parts of the plot...so I think they like a low fertility, but moist soil...which is just about doable after a damp winter. Talking of colonising, I actually have to remove a LOT of cowslips which really spread worse than myosotis sylvatica...but have a much harder time trying to keep the taller, more graceful oxslips alive.