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Salvia heads advice

fizzylizfizzyliz Posts: 398
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Do I just leave the salvia like this or should I be cutting them off/down? Thanks! 😊

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    At the bottom of the flower spike stalk you'll see a pair of leaves - cut it off just above them and then smaller spikes will appear from the leaf joints

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Cut them off, you can save a few seeds for sowing next year.  Cutting off will produce more heads usually. Yours may have gone past that stage now though. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • fizzylizfizzyliz Posts: 398
    @Pete.8 and @Lyn thanks very much for the advice, I will do that then 😊 when abouts do you plant the seeds? Thank you!
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    You have to choose seeds that are black,  I sow them at the end of March. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    I've found these particular ones don't re-flower very well. (Maybe I also left it too late?) I quite like the dried heads so personally would leave them.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
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