The most bad-ass plant for your cottage garden

Loves the sun, tolerates drought, and is delightfully hard to kill (unless you prune it)

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There is really only one secret to being a good gardener: grow plants that like your garden.

Or, to be more accurate: grow plants that like your garden, and regularly chuck out all the ones that die because they don’t like your garden. For more on this callous method of dead-plant-purging, refer to my last newsletter, How to Marie Kondo Your Garden.

If you grow plants that like your garden, the plants you grow will be healthy, vigorous and beautiful. And a lot easier to maintain. With that in mind, I would like to introduce you to one class of plants that really, really like Perth gardens.

Let’s talk about salvias.