just resurrecting this thread to see if I'm the only person whose Salvia Amistads are still short twigs in the ground, with no new growth at all?
I bought about 5 for a few pounds each last year at Homebase at the end of the season...but wondering if they have died over the winter as I left them in their pots because I was moving house.
I would have thought you should be seeing signs of new growth now even in the UK. Have you scraped away the soil around the plants for signs of new shoots? also scrape a little of the stem to see if they are brown or green underneath.
Mine have been growing away for some time. They were in a cold g/h over Winter, but are now in the ground, Have taken some cuttings from the bits I cut back.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Mine are growing too, left in the ground over winter (I'm a smidge further North than @punkdoc I think, but further east so less rain, and with sandy soil that drains freely). I have a cutting in a 4 inch pot that's growing away too (it's been in an open cold frame all winter), but the label has faded completely and I don't know whether it's Amistad or Amante. You could wait a bit longer but it's not sounding very hopeful.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Hmm, thanks so much for the replies, but its not sounding hopeful, is it. I have scraped away the geound and can't see anything - maybe I will dig one up. My neighbour said hers started to shoot a couple of weeks ago - maybe i will give it a couple more weeks.
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just resurrecting this thread to see if I'm the only person whose Salvia Amistads are still short twigs in the ground, with no new growth at all?
I bought about 5 for a few pounds each last year at Homebase at the end of the season...but wondering if they have died over the winter as I left them in their pots because I was moving house.
Thank you!
Have you scraped away the soil around the plants for signs of new shoots? also scrape a little of the stem to see if they are brown or green underneath.
Have taken some cuttings from the bits I cut back.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border