Does it matter before/after buds emerge or before/after flowers open?
As a separate question, I would like to collect seds from several species of Salvia that I established last year. Is there any method or technique that increases the amount of viable seeds I'm likely to be able to collect? Last year I saw many fresh blooms, but seldom saw things that looked like dry seed pods (I'm guessing they opened or fell off as soon as they were ripe).
Do I have to bag the flowering stems?
I've clustered each species close together, but only had 1-2 adults of each last year (except for 'Lady In Red').
Where I have two varieties of one species, one variety goes into the back yard and the other variety goes into the front yard. EXCEPT for 'Lady In Red' and 'Coral Nymph' - both Salvia coccinea. Those are only 10-15 feet apart, due to having too many S. coccinea varieties germinate indoors.
