Salvias

duncan.smith775 · April 2023

Hi fellow gardeners. After last July’s intense heat and then December’s extreme cold I am very worried as most of my shrubby salvias appear to be dead. There are a few green shoots on the tips of the branches but that’s all. Will they recover or should I just start again? Unfortunately a lot of the cuttings overwintering in the greenhouse also succumbed to the extreme cold so my supply is much depleted. I’m hoping the Amisteds will shoot from the base as they were protected by a thick mulch. As well as the salvias I have lost numerous shrubs due to the weather so all in all my garden is proving very expensive this Spring. Ho hum!!!
Thanks for listening - sorry about the rant 😀

punkdoc · April 2023

My S.Amistads have just started sprouting, but I dig min up and keep in a cold g/h. I also take cuttings every year, just in case.
Some of my more tender Salvias are dead.

Perki · April 2023

If you've got some green shoots its still living either prune back or leave it , I'd prune back quite hard personally you'll remove any dead wood and hopefully have a better shaped plant by summer. Salvia Amistad may of dead, I fear I've lost all of mine and the rest of the salvias. I lift my and store in a cold greenhouse but no signs of life yet, nothing to lose waiting another couple of weeks though .

Dovefromabove · April 2023

The front garden is a bit of a frost pocket so as usual Im waiting until well into next month to prune back my S. gregii types … then I’ll cut them back by two thirds. There are already green shoots down near the base. 😊

AnniD · April 2023

I agree, give it another couple of weeks at least. I cut into some seemingly dead looking shrubby salvias yesterday as a test, and found that the inside was green.

JennyJ · April 2023

I pruned the ones that are showing lots of new green growth last weekend (gregii/microphylla types). If the weather we've had this last winter didn't see them off I don't think a spring frost is going to do it.

The Amantes in tubs by the front door and Black 'n' Bloom also in a pot are showing signs of life but the Amistad and Phyllis Fancy in the ground, nothing yet. I've cut back most of the old bare stems (if they grow back it'll be from ground level as usual) and I'll wait and see for another month or so before I think about replacements. There's a cutting in the cold frame that's sprouting but its label has disappeared so I don't know which it is.

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