Let's send this to Tmail so I don't lose it! Tomorrow I'll be back at work where all my notes are.
I will totally pass on bulbs: I have a few very common things that I planted 12-14 months ago. if they come up the seocnd year, those beds will be full.
I am a big fan of Salvia, but once agun, if the varieties that I established for the first time last year come back this spring, I will be desperately looking for new beds more than for new seeds!
But if I can get a rain check for some Salvia plants, that would be perfect. My back is currently aching from chopping out some boring Ju8niper bushes and starting to dig roots.After rooting and screening rocks and adding manure and coffee grounfd and what litle compost I make, and walls, I may have 2-3 more small raised beds.
But even if I discipine myself to keep cherry tomatoes in buckets, and some Salvia in big pots, those new beds are mostly earmarked for vegetables and pansies and Lobelia and a few other annual flowers this year.
I would ask for Salvia plants only if I knew I had room for them, which would be a year or two from now. That would work fine for me, especially since then I will know better what does or doesn't come back for me, and where I have room for what species.
P.S. Also, do you know what the ancestry of Salvia "microphylla" is? I'm not sure what species or hybrid that is. . I want to save seeds from known Salvia varietes, and recently realized that every "NO ID" sage in the yard, kind of compromises that project. It's a small yard, with named Salvia varieties of several hopefully non-cross-polinating species front and back, and I already have a few pots of "NO ID" Salvia to keep away from pollinators.
