Viewing post #1124940 by HamiltonSquare

You are viewing a single post made by HamiltonSquare in the thread called Salvia of the Day: Tropical Sage (Salvia coccinea).
Image
Apr 22, 2016 6:51 PM CST
Name: Leslieray Hurlburt
Sacramento California (Zone 9b)
The WITWIT Badge Region: California Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Xeriscape Native Plants and Wildflowers Salvias
Foliage Fan Lover of wildlife (Black bear badge) Birds Bee Lover Hummingbirder Butterflies
Ours is a salmon color and this three years old has been blooming for over a month now. Its growing at the edge of an elevated plot where it gets winter rain and twice a week hand watering in summer. It's of a small stature as salvias go so its well behaved in in the border. I noticed today it's set some seed but I've yet to see any seedlings naturally occur. It has breezed through our drought with little help from me. Here are a couple of pics from 2014 of the same plant posted in the database in 2016 and you can see there has been no increase in the size of the plant just more blooms in a rainy year like this one. I'm always on the lookout for some of the Lavender flowered cultivars to try out.
Thumb of 2016-04-23/HamiltonSquare/41918a Thumb of 2016-04-23/HamiltonSquare/470a8b
Hamilton Square Garden, Historic City Cemetery, Sacramento California.

« Return to the thread "Salvia of the Day: Tropical Sage (Salvia coccinea)"
« Return to Plants of the Day forum
« Return to the Garden.org homepage

Member Login:

( No account? Join now! )

Today's site banner is by IrisLilli and is called "Purple Crocus Mix"

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.