I grew a little patch of it at 45 degrees latitude. It grew quite vigorously but never flowered at all and ended up succumbing to frost in early october. I'm growing it again but strictly for the copious green shoots. It works well in pesto mixed with basil. It's a kind of sage plant. The nice thing about it being a short day plant is that it just grows and grows and takes the heat without getting bitter or flowering. Just chop the top 2 nodes of fresh shoots and it will put out side shoots. The seeds from the analyses I have seen are one of the best food sources of calcium, so I would imagine the greens are also calcium rich.

You have a phenomenal list! I wish I had more to trade, but I've only been at gardening for three years. We're zone buddies. I have red current tomato & Greek Yevani Basil (I'm not sure if that's the type you want). If you want these 2, I would like the black prince tomato and jumbo Yellow spanish onion. My trading list link is below--let me know if there's anything else you're interested in on my humble list. Will Here is a link that might be useful: My Trading List

Salvia columbariae is golden chia, available at Theodore Payne nursery in LA for $4 a packet. Here is a link that might be useful: Theodore Payne

Here is a 2007 post from the breeder: Rich, I came across your question about Salvia Bryon Flynt. I developed the plant, if you have any questions about how I developed it, let me know. Here is the rundown on how it came to be. Basicallly, back around 2000, I crossed a Salvia Mexicana "Limelight" with a Salvia Hispanica. The Salvia Hispanica came from Western Hills Nursery in Occidental, CA, and the Limelight came from Emerisa Gardens in Santa Rosa. They were growing next to each in my yard to so it was easy to cross. Plus, Mexicana seems to be very receptive to crossing. The seed came from Limelight. There were seven seedlings and two were very vigorous. One of which had a more rounded habit and that became Byron Flynt. Lots of hybrid vigor. The foliage looks like Limelight, but the flowering is similar to Hispanica with the purple/blue flowers and the purple calyxes. It is very vigorous and mine grows about 6'-7' tall and 6' wide. Unfortunately, it is too vigorous and nurseries that try to sell it have to keep rep! otting it in larger and larger pots. I gave the plant to Emerisa nursery in Santa Rosa because I know the owner and he is the one who has been wholesaling it. It does fine down to 28 deg. but after that it starts to melt! It's been fun coming across mentions of this plant on the internet, and seeing it growing around California. best wishes, Dan Lozano