Sounds like success :0) I trim mine back to where I can see new tiny flower buds forming. I've never cut them back as drastically as you have, but good to know that's an option.

I have both, and both are great plants, but I like East Friesland a little more. It is nice and tidy, growing in a 'controlled' clump. May Night tends to sprawl with the branching kind of helter skelter. MN does bloom a little darker and longer, but is harder to cut back for a little rebloom. With the way the stems sprawl I sometimes have a hard time deciding where to cut back to. Both May Night and East Friesland have given me babies, but the offspring aren't the same as the parent plants. As coolplantsguy said...I don't recommend collecting seed with the thoughts of growing more of the same.

I snip off all the spent spikes in the beginning of the season, but it gets tedious. Maybe I should just cut "way" back next season. It doesn't bloom much after the snipping...just a few flowers here and there. I've heard it blooms til frost, but it just mildews for me. It's living in a good half day sun (morning and then some afternoon). What am I doing wrong? Mindy - I've not had slugs that I can see on mine. What other plants do you have surrounding the May Nights?

I moved a Salvia May Night last summer and just unceremoniously plunked it into a hole I dug in ordinary dirt close to and under a Pin Oak by our driveway where it only gets sun from about 2 till 5 or less. Its in very dry unimproved soil so maybe its moisture or too rich soil causing the flop? Mine actually looks good and bloomed same as usual. I transplanted another part of it in even more shade down by a shrub where you can't really see it just because I didn't have the heart to toss it, both bloomed this spring and didn't flop, frankly this plant got boring to me so I relegated it to unimportant spots and thats why its where it is now, poor thing. I'm editing to add that it gets more sun in spring before the neighbors blasted Pin Oak monster leafs out, the rest of the season it just sits there but it did bloom twice because I deadheaded it. My experience was catmint got too bushy & tall in morning sun only making it messy looking compared to the nice silver & xeric looking compact & tight form they have in full sun, that mattered to me a lot more than the blooms. It bloomed just fine in spring but I got rid of it because I didn't like the looks of it and didn't try to transplant it. I always felt compelled to trim it back and I hate the smell of it. I learned that if you dig out the salvia it will come back because the roots are so deep and extensive. It might take a about three digging sessions to get it all out if its been growing there for a while.