Salvia greggii, S. microphylla & Hybrids, self-seeding?
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Comments (13)Microphylla Hot Lips has a good survival rate up here in zone 6b/7a and even involucrata will survive some years so I bet your plants will be fine. A hard winter will set back the bloom time of microphylla and greggii. Shoots on old wood will sometimes bloom as early as April or early May here while shoots from the crown can take a month or more longer to set flowers. I suspect that how long the extreme cold lasts is nearly as important as how low the actual temperatures get - within reason. The old stems on my plants seem to slowly die back as the winter progresses. A couple of years ago we had a wonderfully warm March and the sages came through like champs. The Cherry Queen patch was in bloom by the first week in April and the first greggii "Wild Thing" followed about 2 weeks later. By contrast, last year we had several periods of extreme cold, including several lows around 8 degrees in March. Several cultivars suffered high loses and several others survived,including Hot Lips, but failed to thrive, growing to less than half their normal size....See More'red' salvia greggii
Comments (24)As I've found the greggii labels to not always be very accurate, I am just saying how mine were labeled by the nurseries and they have not been verified by an expert. I'm not a collector, but I use a lot of salvias for the long boom season. All of mine are in bloom right now and have been blooming well since May. I am growing a few of the red greggii in part sun. The ones labeled 'cherry queen' are growing under a crape myrtle on the south west side of the house and doing great. They don't get morning sun, but get midday to afternoon sun. For almost three years now, the ones labeled 'Navajo red' are protected from afternoon sun by a large weeping willow. I thought I had lost those from our snows this winter. I cut back 4 of the 5 to the basal foliage and they have now caught up with the 1 that I left alone. The greggii varieties that are getting 8-10 hours of sun in my garden are 'Diane', 'Texas Wedding', 'Dark Dancer' and one that BB just had labeled as 'Autumn Sage' that is a hot pink color. Cameron...See MoreS. greggii 'Flame' Seeds
Comments (2)Lois: I think Rich can answer better than I can as to timing your Seed planting. My seed are black when they are ripe. If you have the plant at your house take some cuttings. I have found that a better way to generate more salvias. Seed down here(in the south) comes up in the spring but I don't have snow cover to be concerned with either.If you have to do seed I would use something that is a more coarse soil with containers that have good drainage (old nursery pots).Your right it is a good idea to grow seedlings in a environment that you can have some control over. A cold frame (Clear plastic covered) with fans.If you have the space a greenhouse/potting shed works well also. As to color they should be red. Unless you have some different colored S.microphylla in the area then you can end up with hybrids. Art...See MoreNew greggii hybrids and Salvia ID's
Comments (3)im going to take a few more pictures and add them to the list. the two shrubs with the white bee lines are very different. All of the greggii hybrids are my personal selections from seed. Normal color plant seed. All came from White, cream, or yellow seed of S. greggii. 2169 and 2170 are the same plant and 2200, 2201, 2202 are the same plant. Careful in these pictures there is a little bit of S. disjucta popping its stems through the actual species i need identified. thanks again...See MoreLinda Urban
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