Thank you Verdun, clearly you are an enthusiast. Which of these will survive the winter, just the carradonna? And where do you advise me purchasing them from?
Does anyone have a picture of this Salvia - I have some seedlings which are now healthy looking little plants that some kind forum member sent me last Autumn, I think they are hot lips, but not 100% sure.. Can I plant them out now and do the slugs find them tasty? Where should I put them in our garden?
I love the Salvia Dayglow, it's a very strong grower the only drawback with it is because it's a very strong pink you have to be careful what you plant it next to.
This is hot lips showing all red flowers,
I did read somewhere that the flower colour on hot lips was determined by the light levels.
I bought, yes! Bought one of those hot pink salvias, it takes very easily from cuttings, here's a photo of a couple of the cuttings, in their first year, photo taken 28th October and still it kept blooming, it's stayed green all winter, I'm about to cut it back soon. It suits my garden late summer and Autumn when it's all hot colours.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
This is my salvia - is it salvia? The seed packet said it was Salvia. The leaves are sort of hairy and soft, whatever they are they germinated really easily (last October/November).
Thanks Esspee, I hope you are wrong, as I have plans to put these plants at the back of my flower bed to give colour and height. I will post this picture on a plant ID page.
The consensus is that the plants are Lychnis Coronaria, Esspee. I received a few packets of seeds, and this one must have been wrongly labelled or wrongly sown, but that doesn't matter, as I like surprises and my garden should look much more colourful this summer than in the past.
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Thank you Verdun, clearly you are an enthusiast. Which of these will survive the winter, just the carradonna? And where do you advise me purchasing them from?
Does anyone have a picture of this Salvia - I have some seedlings which are now healthy looking little plants that some kind forum member sent me last Autumn, I think they are hot lips, but not 100% sure.. Can I plant them out now and do the slugs find them tasty? Where should I put them in our garden?
I love the Salvia Dayglow, it's a very strong grower the only drawback with it is because it's a very strong pink you have to be careful what you plant it next to.
This is hot lips showing all red flowers,
I did read somewhere that the flower colour on hot lips was determined by the light levels.
I bought, yes! Bought one of those hot pink salvias, it takes very easily from cuttings, here's a photo of a couple of the cuttings, in their first year, photo taken 28th October and still it kept blooming, it's stayed green all winter, I'm about to cut it back soon. It suits my garden late summer and Autumn when it's all hot colours.
This is my salvia - is it salvia? The
seed packet said it was Salvia. The leaves are sort of hairy and soft, whatever they are they germinated really easily (last October/November).
I would guess that that is a Stachys, I know it as lambs ears though I might well be completely wrong GD.
Thanks Esspee, I hope you are wrong, as I have plans to put these plants at the back of my flower bed to give colour and height. I will post this picture on a plant ID page.
Did you eventually get the plant identified GD?
The consensus is that the plants are Lychnis Coronaria, Esspee. I received a few packets of seeds, and this one must have been wrongly labelled or wrongly sown, but that doesn't matter, as I like surprises and my garden should look much more colourful this summer than in the past.