| Description | Salvia Golden Delicious (Salvia elegans) A yellow foliage Salvia with red flowers. |
|---|---|
| Plant Type | Perennial Tender |
| Hardiness Zone | 7(8)-10 |
| Sunlight | full, part sun |
| Moisture | prefers moist, average |
| Soil & Site | average, moist, well drained |
| Flowers | scarlet flower, borne in 2-6 flowered widely spaced whorls on a long inflorescence, short green calyx, scarlet tubular flower, late blooming |
| Leaves | golden yellow green, color seems to depend on light, on plantings where there is degrees of sun hitting parts of the group the color will vary, strongly scented |
| Stems | spreads by underground runners |
| Dimensions | 40 inches tall by 23 inches wide, forms a spreading mounding mass |
| Propagation | PP#17,977 |
| Cultivar Origin | Introduced by Intrinsic Perennial Gardens 2005. |
| Misc Facts | (syn S. rutilans) |
| Notes & Reference | #87-The New Book of Salvias (Betsy Clebsch), #147-The Gardeners Guide to growing Salvias (John Sutton), Intrinsic Perennials Fact Sheet |
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