One of my baby Amistad cuttings has a flower bud! Precocious wee thing! Maybe they're actually tougher than we think. Actually I think I'm going to pinch them out to make them bushier, so the flower will go.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
My salvias are showing no signs of growth either (whereas most other things in garden are coming back to life). Good to know that i am not alone in my worry.
will do a close inspection today to see any signs of green growth.
Yes @Ryan180680, l first had green shoots at the base of my amistad a few weeks back. They haven't grown much since then, but should get going when the soil and night time temperature goes up over the next few weeks. Is yours in the ground or a pot?
Yes @Ryan180680, l first had green shoots at the base of my amistad a few weeks back. They haven't grown much since then, but should get going when the soil and night time temperature goes up over the next few weeks. Is yours in the ground or a pot?
Mine is in a pot this time round. I've tried in the ground and had no luck so trying a pot this time round
@Ryan180680, mine is in a large pot, l bought it last summer and had to pot it on a few times as it grew huge and looked amazing . It got blown over a few times so I was hoping to plant it in the border this year. I don't know how it would cope with my clay soil, though much improved drainage wise, and my Devon wet winters. So I'm interested in other gardeners experience of it in the ground. I do have some cuttings from last year greening up so have spares.
@Ryan180680, mine is in a large pot, l bought it last summer and had to pot it on a few times as it grew huge and looked amazing . It got blown over a few times so I was hoping to plant it in the border this year. I don't know how it would cope with my clay soil, though much improved drainage wise, and my Devon wet winters. So I'm interested in other gardeners experience of it in the ground. I do have some cuttings from last year greening up so have spares.
We originally had one in the ground a few years back and we have clay soil too. Where it was planted was also very waterlogged and it did really well coming back year after year. However because we couldn't resolve the water logging issue we decided to build a garden shed on top. Where I had then moved it too was very dry and it just didn't come back and I lost it
I have three planted in clay soil in a sheltered area which doesn't get any sun until summer is really here and even then for only half of the day. The last couple of years it hasn't even produced a shoot until late summer, but then flowered well into winter. This winter was so mild that it didn't really die back so I just cut the flagging tops off to see what it would do. It's been leafing up for a few weeks and now has some flower shoots starting! I'm a bit torn about whether to cut them back anyway?
I feel like I made the mistake of cutting mine back in Autumn, rather than doing it in spring so they could maximise stored energy. I'm only seeing very small shoots on mine at the moment, I was worried that they had died due to all of the wet weather possibly rotting the roots.
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will do a close inspection today to see any signs of green growth.
Is yours in the ground or a pot?
I do have some cuttings from last year greening up so have spares.