I wish! Actually, i just have a lot of variety in Salvia seeds, and an ongoing desire to GROW some, any at all, in my garden.
For several winters, in trays, nothing sprouted or lasted long enough to make it into soil.
- I think that faster-draining seedling mix (and maybe the heat mat) saved me last year.
- And i've learned not to leave salvia in small prop tray cells: now I pot up to 3" pots as soon as the seedling has a few pairs of leaves.
- I've also become braver about feeding seedlings to the slugs since I got agressive with beer saucers in addition to bait. Now I'm willing to put them outside on the deck rather soon, and into the ground fairly soon.
- I also created a new raised bed mostly for salvia. It has improved drainage (lots of very coarse sand / grit / crushed rock and pine bark mulch to lighten the clay). Also I gave that bed a lot of coffee grounds and manure compost. So it's practically soil, not clay!
Last winter, I sowed around twice that many varieties in prop trays.
That list includes anything that came up well enough to pot up and, later, set outside. I do still see some Salvia seedlings emerge, and then fade out before I pot them up. Maybe the 128-cell prop tray is too shallow for Salvia seed starting?
Some of varieties only did well enough that one adult put out a few blooms (and I hope some of those were perennials that put their energy into roots and will come back!
I think both Lady In Red and Coral Nymph are Annuals, even though I'm in Zone 8b and we had a very mild winter. They had many flowers, and I know they set seed becuase I collected some hard black seeds from both. I think and hope they dropped 10 times as many as I collected, and will come back in the garden, from seed.
This winter I was too busy and scattered to start anything indoors!
