salvia clevelandii
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Salvia clevelandii in container?
Comments (1)I have a large clevelandii that spent quite a few years in a large clay pot then transitioned to the garden. I don't have a problem here with cold weather or frosts, so I can't speak to that....See Morecontroling size of Salvia clevelandii
Comments (2)rich: we usually are sold "Winifred Gilman" or similar cultivars.... which get to be 4't x 5'w. After the S. c are done blooming here, I prune them down to lower growth; if I'm lucky they might bloom once again, then I'll need to prune back once again or they get too woody and don't last very long. However, IF you leave the blooms on to turn to seed you just might be visited by Wild Canaries (Yellow Finches) who love the seeds....See MoreSalvia clevelandii in California
Comments (32)desertsage: I haven't visited any wild clevelands since June, but my own clevelands never have a second bloom. Summer watering prolongs the blooming season a bit, but they don't bloom for a second time. S. clevelandii, like others of the Audibertia group, lives a cycle. Flowering is the climax of the wet/cool-season part of their annual cycle. As the flowers mature, the plants start to grow their smaller dry-season leaves. I'd think it would be difficult for them, physiologically, to reverse field and bloom a second time. Even a summer thunderstorm (we had one in July) would be insufficient to alter the cycle. As an additional point of interest, I have a cleveland that I bought from a commercial nursery and that appears to have a lot of S. leucophylla in it. It's entire bloom, which occurs in late May, takes about 10 days. If you don't pay attention, you can miss it. The clevelands that I grew from seed and cuttings flower later but much longer....See MoreSalvia clevelandii...
Comments (4)Oooh,,,I LOVE these and have been looking up the best one for my area, Laguna Niguel. What is better, a hybrid or the straight species? I was about to hunt them down for ordering as I had both of these on my list but now, don't know which one to get. Will check back on this to see what happens....See MoreCA Kate z9
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