Can anyone advise me on how best to look after the half hardy salvia uligonosa over the winter without digging it up? I imagine that I'll need to mulch it, but what with and when do it cut it down? Is it April, like other salvias?
It's an herbaceous perennial so will die back for winter. Cut the dead tops off before you mulch. In some areas this one survives winter without help. It does in a garden very close to me, but mine died..I think it might have died of dry in summer rather rthan cold in winter
Although I am in the soft south, no salvia survives winter in my clay soil - even though much improved - so I dig them up, put them in pots in the greenhouse and replant outdoors in late April.
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It's an herbaceous perennial so will die back for winter. Cut the dead tops off before you mulch. In some areas this one survives winter without help. It does in a garden very close to me, but mine died
..I think it might have died of dry in summer rather rthan cold in winter
In the sticks near Peterborough
It is not hardy here in darkest Yorkshire, so I dig mine up.
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Although I am in the soft south, no salvia survives winter in my clay soil - even though much improved - so I dig them up, put them in pots in the greenhouse and replant outdoors in late April.
Is this a good time? I did it last spring and they did quite well. I love them.
Think that's the case with mine then, to dry in summer, its down to one stem this year, might go dig it up this afternoon.
Thanks Verdun, I shall try this tomorrow!
Just to say thank you for all your replies.