Yesterday we were at the home of some local friends here in France and I was offered a beautiful salvia cutting to plant back in the UK. Does anyone know if that is permitted since Brexit?
No sorry to say it needs to stay in France. Plants are brought innocently into the UK and back to the EU. With the huge increase in pest and disease we all need to be careful.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
Since Brexit, plants, like people, no longer have free movement in and out between the UK and the EU. You need a phyto sanitary certificate to move it legally and they cost a lot of time and money.
Best to find one back in the UK.
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Thank you all. I recently bought a lovely range of salvias from Norfolk herbs, but our friends’ was like a deep pink version of Royal Bumble which I already had. I shall ask next week what variety theirs is, certainly it had spread beautifully.
I’m beginning to think you can’t have too many salvias. And I’d not particularly thought of them as edible garnish, but they certainly enhanced a recent meal out.
There are several deep pink varieties. I have one called "Cerro potosi" and a similar one that was my first salvia, bought from a plant fair many years ago just labelled Salvia greggii (It might be one that someone grew from seed, so variable). I'd offer to send you some cuttings but I don't think they'd survive the trip in the hot weather that's imminent.
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Having had a peep at both Norfolk Herbs and Middleton Nursery websites I suspect it will be one of these salvia microphylla varieties: Cerro Potosi, Wild Watermelon or Watermelon Sorbet. 😂 was just typing when your answer came through, @JennyJ. We are still in France for over a week more, wonderful rose season where we are.
Definitely not "icing sugar" @Dovefromabove, it's a single solid shade of deep hot pink. And I bought the original one something like 25 to 30 years ago, before the boom in popularity and before many of the newer varieties were bred.
Edit: here's a sprig of it (complete with cuckoo-spit )
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Unfortunately, it is best to leave the cutting in France. You could be bringing disease or unwanted pests into the UK.
To be on the safe side. Sorry.
Best to find one back in the UK.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.