@Ilikeplants I think the woody salvias (microphylla etc) do well as cut flowers (I can't speak for the others). I use them all the time. Cheerful, they don't drop bits and seem to last well. I tend to use them as pops of colour in a bunch.
On a side note, the woody ones take so well from cuttings that I usually pot up a handful of prunnings each time to make new plants. If there is a flower bud, these days I just pinch it out before potting up; it doesn't seem to mind.
I love salvias, I probably buy too many😉. Here are some of mine, salmon, melon cove with cherry lips behind,cool cream, clotted cream, strawberries and cream (hmm, a bit of a theme there) and wine and gold. I find they are quite easy to propagate in a jar of water.
Mirage Cherry Red in full flow (I neglected to prune this one so it's further on than the others that were pruned late this year because we had a cold spring)
Mirage Deep Purple in front of Lavender Dilly Dilly, both in pots (the camera has made both of them more blue than they really are).
Lara and S. nemorosa Sensation Deep Rose with an artemisa behind, and a bit of Geranium lancastriense
Lavender Dilly Dilly in the ground (already thigh-high on me from being pruned to about 8 inches)
Christine Yeo with a pink one that as labelled S. greggii behind and a bit of Nachtvlinder popping up in front
Cool Cream with a variegated weigela behind
Blue note with a yellow chrysanth (won't be in flower until September but Blue Note will still be flowering then) and a self-sown foxglove flopping over it and one of the tall herbaceous blue salvias (not yet flowering) alongside. Blue Note's a darker blue in real life. My phone camera doesn't do blues very well.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
My favourite has to be Salvia nemorosa Pink Inspiration. It flowers for ages, the bees love it and the dark stems add a bit of drama:
I'm growing Salvia x jamensis Nachtvlinder this year - my first salvia which isn't a nemorosa - and I'm enjoying the scent of the foliage. The flowers are a beautiful deep, moody purple red but the sprawling habit is less ideal for containers IMO.
It is a lovely colour isn't it @Slow-worm ? The original plant came from a cutting given to me by the late Robin Middleton (well known salvia expert) back in 2019 before it was widely available. When it did start to flower l couldn't believe the colour. There are others that are quite similar (Blue Merced for example), but l have a soft spot for this one and it reminds me of a very generous, kind man who was so helpful
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I'm growing Salvia x jamensis Nachtvlinder this year - my first salvia which isn't a nemorosa - and I'm enjoying the scent of the foliage. The flowers are a beautiful deep, moody purple red but the sprawling habit is less ideal for containers IMO.
The original plant came from a cutting given to me by the late Robin Middleton (well known salvia expert) back in 2019 before it was widely available.
When it did start to flower l couldn't believe the colour. There are others that are quite similar (Blue Merced for example), but l have a soft spot for this one and it reminds me of a very generous, kind man who was so helpful