Salvia leucantha x elegans 'Anthony Parker' JC Raulston Arboretum and Michael Dirr calls the

and Michael Dirr calls the plant "one of the finest

Asimina triloba

each division marked down the center with a clean gold stripe

Thrives in the heat of the South

They grow from a large

Salvia leucantha x elegans 'Anthony Parker' JC Raulston Arboretum and Michael Dirr calls theSalvia 'Anthony Parker' is a big, late blooming hybrid sage with a charming South Carolina origin. The plant arose as a chance seedling in the Beaufort garden of the plantswoman Frances Parker, a cross between Salvia leucantha 'Midnight' and the pineapple sage Salvia elegans, and Frances rescued the young seedling from the path of the mower and named it for her grandson Anthony, then a year old, in 1994. From that lucky reprieve came one of the best