It's that season when the seed companies are announcing their new
introductions for next year. Some are genuinely new, some are not so
new. One that especially caught my eye is from Dobies Seeds, it's the new pink form of one of our favourite salvias - Salvia patens.
This
rose pink form is part of the new Patio Series. The plants are shorter
and bushier than the tall, relatively unbranched plants with which
we're familiar and they also come in an unusual range of colours.
There's dark blue and sky blue, lilac and white - these are the colours
in which Salvia patens has been available for some years - plus
the very rare rose pink form. 
And, along with that bushier habit, it's
the pink form which I'm sure will prove popular. Mind you, I have to say
that I've not yet seen actual plants in flower so I'll be intrigued to
see just how pink they are - "rose" is the term being used.
Dobies Seeds are listing a seed mixture of the five colours. They're also listing young plants
in three individual colours - deep blue, sky blue and rose pink as
well, a collection of fifteen young plants in those three colours.
It's
true, one RHS Plant Finder nursery, John and Lynsey's Plants, list a
pink flowered form but ‘Patio Pink' is not only available as seed and
plants by mail order, plants should also be in garden centres next spring.