Thanks @AnniD, I will! Do you grow many salvia? That is interesting @JennyJ about Lavender DD being robust for you. I particularly like the red and blue colours in Salvia, but I could be persuaded onto the peachy ones too.
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I do have a lot of shrubby salvias @clematisdorset, but l'd say l've lost 50% of the ones in the back garden so far. I have 2 beds in the front garden right up against the house full of them and the majority seem to have survived (including the infamous Hot Lips which was bent double with the weight of snow in early December). I'm going to wait at least another 2 weeks before I cut them back.
I adore Hot Lips, my one is pleasantly huge, and around it is a raspberry, oregano, an agapanthus, penstemon, black grasses and another woody salvia - I forget the name but it's got coral coloured flowers, which sound like they'd clash with the red but they don't.
I agree with Lavender Dilly Dilly and Blue Merced for good light blues (I haven't grown So Cool Pale Blue). Lavender DD is particularly robust and reliable for me, and gets quite big - about 1m height and spread - from a fairly hard spring chop.
That So Cool blue is gorgeous isn't it? I really need some of those.
Oh sorry to hear that, @AnniD, but it is good that those near the house wall have fared better. I hope they perk up for you. It is difficult when the weather lurches about so much. I haven't cut back mine yet, at least there are a few leaves. I am a shrubby Salvia convert now!
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One of mine is showing signs of growth, another looks dead. All the cuttings of salvias I took too late last year have died. The osteospermum cuttings taken at the same time have survived and now potted on , about half of the rudbeckias I had delivered as plugs the size of my little finger last autumn are showing signs of life.
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I have 2 beds in the front garden right up against the house full of them and the majority seem to have survived (including the infamous Hot Lips which was bent double with the weight of snow in early December). I'm going to wait at least another 2 weeks before I cut them back.
I'm in East Yorkshire and mine is in the ground and has new shoots coming through now.
I've just bought a Blue Monrovia which is another shrubby one, hoping it's as hardy as the hot lips.