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Salvia argentea ~ Silver Sage

The reason to grow this plant is for the wooly leaves that look like they belong on another planet, or at least pulled from the set of Arachnophobia.  The flowers are white and fairly nondescript.  The plants are biennials, flowering in their second season.  They require decent drainage and are often rotted by overhead irrigation.  New plants will occasionally come up from seed and I sometimes get a plant to come back from the roots by cutting off the flower stalk before it sets seed.  It has been hardy into the teens here.  It is native to southern Europe.