Whats Looking Good In September 2016

I take my pleasure where I can

Technically a tender perennial but realistically it is best grown as an annual.

If it is in the ground it stays out all winter. In a pot I would put it under glass. Basically in the first year I keep it in a pot and then in the spring of its second year I plant it out. It will bloom in early summer of its second year and the same every year after that.

 

I've done it right so far then

It's one I grew from seed last year ( thank you ) and I kept in in last Winter, it's been planted out since about May but hasn't flowered.so I can leave it out then and hope for flowers next year

 

Usually I would have expected it to bloom in its second season but in all fairness it has not been a good summer for growing Salvia.

 

I bought this one as a young plant in bud @longk and it is a shorter variety about 2ft high but multi branched. It is also spineless but I don't know if it is available from seed.

Do you know how hardy Salvia Amistad is? Hot Lips and Icing Sugar have taken -7/8c here no problem, is it as hardy?

 

That's a shame. I need the taller varieties as I want to do a patch of Amaranthus and Cleome next year.

I haven't overwintered it properly yet (it was a cutting last winter) but it will not be as hardy as the shrubby Salvias. The parents are thought to be S.gauranitica (quite hardy) and S.gesneriiflora (not hardy) so I would treat it like the Wish series and lift it in the autumn, drop it in a large pot and shove it in the shed.

 

Thanks @longk, Amistad is in a pot, it was only a fiver and over 2ft high from B&Q. I bought it without knowing where it could go. Next spring it will go in the ground and take the place of something else.

 

Pill Box Yucca time again 2 spikes this year







I'll take another pic when they're fully out and hopefully the sun might be too

 

An unbeliever, persecute, kill the heretic

Now the sun's out, I can see it's got 3 spikes

 

Nerine bowdenii...............


Mirabilis jalapa has been blooming its heart out for months yet I've just noticed that I've yet to show it off.................

 

Lovely Nerine Longk. Is it perfumed?

 

Not that I've noticed to be honest.