Rockin'^® Deep Purple Salvia hybrid

I first saw this plant 3 years ago in a test garden of rows of varying salvias but the row of RDS was where all the hummingbird activity was. I brought neighbors a week later and they saw the same thing. Every year since then my neighbors and I have planted 3 each of these in containers to draw in the hummingbirds. We are fully satisfied watching all the activity. It is my favorite plant for the hummingbirds and I will never be without it.

Fantastic plant Salvia Rockin both Deep Purple and fuchsia. Planted them last year moved them in October to a new place in my garden. When it came back this year they are both 6 foot tall.

Rockin Deep Purple (RDP) is not sterile. It will set seeds. I didn't try to set seeds on RDP. I found 4 seedlings from RDP that I feel were from seeds that must have fallen from the flowers of RDP to the soil in my 2018 garden and started to grow in spring of 2019. I dug out the RDP seedlings and grew them in my 2019 garden. It's a wonderful salvia plant and one of my favorites. A great pollinator plant loved by bees, other inserts, hummingbirds, and the occasional butterfly.

This plant is stunningly beautiful and amazingly vigorous. It attracts hummingbirds like a magnet and is constantly covered with bumblebees and honeybees. It looks exactly like Salvia ‘Amistad’ but with a growth habit that is very dense in comparison, with heavy self-branching. It is less brittle than ‘Amistad’ too, but could still benefit from staking if growing in exposed, windy conditions. Love this plant!

Love all these new color annual TALL salvia. I've already seen a hummingbird at mine this Spring. I like the classic Black and Blue but these hybrid colors are even better!