Not for the Ladies. Salvia nubicola, Nepal Mountain Sage, Botanischer Garten, Dahlem, Berlin, Germany
Jane Wells Webb Loudon (1807-1858), well-known author of fantasy and 'science fiction', was also a great lover of flowers. She authored The Ladies' Flower-garden. Perennials (1843). About this Salvia: 'It is scarcely worth cultivating in gardens, as it is more curious than beautiful'.
It had been grown from seed in England since 1823 in the nursery of James Covill, jr. (1777-1832). Robert Sweet (1783-1835) named it for Nathaniel Wofff Wallich (1786-1854) a famous botanical India hand, in 1826. He writes it hails from Nepal, from where seed had been procured by a Mr Hood.
It thrives well above 2000 metres - 'lover of clouds' - in India, China and the Far East but also clearly at the level of Dahlem in Berlin!
Not for the Ladies. Salvia nubicola, Nepal Mountain Sage, Botanischer Garten, Dahlem, Berlin, Germany
Jane Wells Webb Loudon (1807-1858), well-known author of fantasy and 'science fiction', was also a great lover of flowers. She authored The Ladies' Flower-garden. Perennials (1843). About this Salvia: 'It is scarcely worth cultivating in gardens, as it is more curious than beautiful'.
It had been grown from seed in England since 1823 in the nursery of James Covill, jr. (1777-1832). Robert Sweet (1783-1835) named it for Nathaniel Wofff Wallich (1786-1854) a famous botanical India hand, in 1826. He writes it hails from Nepal, from where seed had been procured by a Mr Hood.
It thrives well above 2000 metres - 'lover of clouds' - in India, China and the Far East but also clearly at the level of Dahlem in Berlin!