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Need help i.d.ing this Salvia

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This salvia grew easily here in Sydney from a mystery cutting from a friend who thought she was buying something else. The plant is about a metre high, and has spread a bit wider than that. It blooms pretty much all year. It looks a lot like pics of Wendy’s Wish, but has nowhere near the proliferation of those magenta flowers in the bracts that you see on nursery websites. Could anyone help me identify it? Photo attached.

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prairiemoon2 z6b MA

last month

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Awww....that's so sweet! Thank you. lol Enjoy it and Happy spring! At least I think it's spring....we have snow on the ground this morning.

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rosaprimula
last month
Colour is very reminiscent of involucrata hybrids...but tbh, salvia has been hybridised so often, I have lost track of many of the cultivars. Bracts are not really similar as Mulberry Jam for example, but the vigour and longevity does suggest some involucrata, somewhere in it's lineage...but these days, I am finding the NOID label becoming almost ubiquitous in my garden plants.
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forever_a_newbie_VA8
last month
It is a beautiful color
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HU-45580804
Original Author
last month
Thank you for your replies. i think i’ll file it away as Not Quite Wendy’s Wish!
diggerdee zone 6 CT
last month
"... i think i’ll file it away as Not Quite Wendy’s Wish!..."

I'm sorry I can't help you with your ID, but your comment made me smile. Years - decades! - ago, I kept trying to buy a hosta. I think it might have been Royal Standard but I can't quite remember. I must have bought something labeled as Royal Standard at least five times, by mail order, different companies, etc., and each time when it came up, it was NOT Royal Standard. So I had a little hosta bed named "Not Royal Standard". It got to be rather fun after awhile lol.

:)

Dee
prairiemoon2 z6b MA
last month
I love magenta flowers and that one is stunning!
HU-45580804
Original Author
last month
I’d send you cuttings if it weren’t against Australian law!
rusty_blackhaw
last month
The foliage looks very different from any of the "Wish" series Salvias.

Flower color is similar to that of Salvia "Rockin' Fuchsia"* but it doesn't have the dark calyces of that hybrid.

*this one is a surprisingly hardy plant, marketed as an annual but which has survived subzero temps in my garden.
HU-45580804
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prairiemoon2, it’s autumn here. Definitely no snow on the ground here - ever!

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