Allen Chickering Sage
Salvia ‘Allen Chickering’ · a blue-flowered Cleveland sage
A compact California sage with aromatic grey-green leaves and tiers of lavender flower whorls in late spring and summer; on a warm afternoon one plant can perfume the garden, and hummingbirds adore it. It takes almost any soil and needs no summer water once settled. Give it sun, and once it's woody only tip prune.
- Mature size
- 4.5 × 4.5 ft
- 1.4 × 1.4 m, tall × wide
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry
- Blooms
- Apr–Jun
Allen Chickering Sage at its mature size
A mature Allen Chickering Sage grows 4 to 5 feet tall and just as wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: San Marcos Growers, Calscape.
Through the year
What Allen Chickering Sage looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Jul–Mar
Gray-green leaves, dry flower stems.
In flower · Apr–Jun
Whorled lavender-blue flower spikes over gray-green leaves.
Growing Allen Chickering Sage
- Grows well in
- California.
- Good for
- Hedge, small space, foundation planting, drought tolerant, deer resistant, pollinators, and fragrant
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Garden hybrid (California natives)
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Allen Chickering Sage, that’s about 4.5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Allen Chickering Sage in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other salvias and sages
Mexican Bush Sage
Russian Sage
Winnifred Gilman Cleveland SageAllen Chickering SageAll drawn to the same scale.