Super Salvias 2014..

@longk

Flowers most of the year round with me, a lot of people really like the smell of the leaves. I don't have a white form but I do have a pale yellow, which is a lot less vigorous.
I think the blue one could be S meyeri
This is another Salvia that I grew from seed and cannot find a label for now.

 

Could that be Salvia viscosa?

 

I am starting to harvest seeds of these 2
Salvia Patens , dark blue and light blue :


PM me if you would like some,
Jenny

 

I'm ok for those thanks, but...................

I am starting to harvest seeds of S. forsskaolii...................




PM me if anyone wants some.

 

Arrived this morning (got an email yesterday too, to tell me they were despatched)

 

Mine is in bloom at last....................


It can get to a good size.....................


Here's one for @nibor to give his thoughts on - the elusive S.hians.................








Is it or isn't it?

 

That's the sort of Red I'm looking for

 

Better red like this by growing it in partial shade. Last year it was in full sun and more orangey.

 

Another impulse buy - Salvia Fairy Queen

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.. and apparently some water on the lense ! not sure where that came from.

 

that's a nice "tidy" form Nick - I like that,
Jenny

 

Got the Macro lens out today
Dysons Crimson

should have cropped it
Jenny

 

This is a sibling of the above Dyson's Crimson. Seed sown and germinated in early Spring this year and has flourished. A few days ago, the first flowers arrived and they are the same as their Mum's. Now, confession time - I had Salvia Hians which flowered this year but I didn't like them at all - plants too big for my garden - so - off to recycling with them and Dyson's Crimson put in one of the pots. A nice coarse gritty mix of 50%/50% good MPC and JI No.3 with some slow release shrub granules at the bottom. Should make a nice specimen pot next year - or maybe , even later this year?



Jenny namaste

 

Do you have any photos? I'd be interested to see them.

The look darker in the photos Jenny? More like the colour of my Raspberry Royale.

 

I took this with my Nokia Lumia 1020. I have just put them in gro-sure compost because they have been struggling of late. Hopefully they will recover soon

 

It got very leggy ,uninteresting and downright scruffy in the end.

I'll keep my eye on them Keith. It may be because they are young blooms?
Jenny