One of the big, caney, Winter-flowering salvias of the involucrata group, Salvia karwinskii is a stand-out in the garden with big candelabras of pink flower spikes. Left to its own devices it is an open fountain of canes a couple of metres high, with sparse foliage compared to the canopies of S. involucrata and S. wagneriana. Leaves are large; 140 mm blades on 50 mm petioles, spear head shaped and 65 mm wide toward the base. Both surfaces are covered in short hairs, making the upper surface a matt green, and…
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