I have a question..
If we have damp winters and humid, and my salvia is not on a high elevated
and dry, sandy place..do I mulch it for the winter next year with cypress mulch
about 3 inches thick or just leave it unmulched?
I do not want to retain wet dirt under the mulch......and rot the salvia when the nights get down to 32 degrees..these are perennial for my zone 8..
I have had black blue salvia come back every year with no mulch around it..
My flower bed the water runs off it but it is clay like with black dirt ..but a heavy
dirt..not sandy..
your suggestion on to mulch or not to mulch perennials in my area where it is
damp in the flower bed and humid at times in the winter..zone 8?
I had read somewhere that up north that it can keep the ground drier under the mulch..
I just could not fathom that happening down south..in a heavy soil..
this is the flower bed..it looks much better normally in early summer before
the upper 90's and 100 degree heat ...arrives.
thanks
sheri /sheridragonfly
