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Anyone know what these are?

graigrai Posts: 78
edited June 2023 in Problem solving
They were MEANT to be Salvia Eurphoria

They're NOTHING like the picture on the seed packet or the description which says they're a dome of pink and white spires 

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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    A long shot S Turkestanica?
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    edited June 2023
    They look like clary sage, aka  Salvia sclarea .I suspect the name Salvia euphoria is a marketing name.  Give them a bit longer, they should start flowering soon.  I would plant out your plants about 8 inches apart in a drift to give the desired effect.
  • graigrai Posts: 78
    edited June 2023
    This is what they were meant to look like!


    the habit couldn't be less like the salvias I had in mind which are more like sunflowers

    it's so disappointing because I've been nurturing them from seed like an idiot

    It's like having a cuckoo in the nest
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Let them flower and they may look like the pic.  I say, may.  No guarantee.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    I expect they will, but they will be tall Height 100-120cm (3-4').
    East Anglia
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    The seed packet pic doesn't show the foliage, just the flower spikes so yours might look like that when the flowers open up. You've just got the beginnings of flower spikes on them. I think the blue and green in the seed packet pic is something else in the background. Unwins' packet has a different picture, if that's any help https://justseed.com/products/unw8169
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • graigrai Posts: 78
    JennyJ said:
    The seed packet pic doesn't show the foliage, just the flower spikes so yours might look like that when the flowers open up. You've just got the beginnings of flower spikes on them. I think the blue and green in the seed packet pic is something else in the background. Unwins' packet has a different picture, if that's any help https://justseed.com/products/unw8169
    Thanks

    Hard to see how four feet high stalks would ever produce the effect of the picture

    They're really more like sunflowers with one flower at the top of each huge stalk 

    I don't like them so I won't be bothering again!

    Very frustrating though as they were not easy to grow from seed and I could have used the time and space on something else 

    Live and learn 
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    As said, those plants look exactly like the ones I grow as S. sclarea turkestanica. The buds at the top will extend and produce racemes of flowers, not one single flower like a Sunflower.
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