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Salvia
northwest1965
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Can anyone tel me how I dead head salvias? Do I just pull out the inner petal or the whole part of the flower?
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Salvia gets deadheaded by clipping off the entire spent bloom just below where the flowers were so i was told when i bought one last month.DebtFree FEB 2010!Slight blip in 2013 - Debtfree Aug 2014 :j
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We cut ours down right to the base in the spring and now it is about 3ft tall and looking lovely. Was planning to take the same approach with it this time after its finished flowering; there's not really any room for it to get much bigger than it is now.0
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morg_monster wrote: »We cut ours down right to the base in the spring and now it is about 3ft tall and looking lovely. Was planning to take the same approach with it this time after its finished flowering; there's not really any room for it to get much bigger than it is now.
Arent they annuals?
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Not sure... The flowering heads got knocked off mine a couple of weeks back and nothing else is growing back... Do they just flower once?0
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I did just find this out about them though on Wiki!
Salvia divinorum (also known as Diviner's Sage,[2] ska Mar!a Pastora,[3] Seer's sage,[4] and by its genus name Salvia) is a psychoactive plant which can induce dissociative effectsLoved our trip to the West Coast USA. Death Valley is the place to go!0 -
Not sure... The flowering heads got knocked off mine a couple of weeks back and nothing else is growing back... Do they just flower once?
The tips on mine faded and i took the pale coloured tips off and they grew back and reflowered.DebtFree FEB 2010!Slight blip in 2013 - Debtfree Aug 2014 :j
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http://www.beekenkamp.nl/upload/ornamentals/Salvia-Vista-red.jpg
I found a picture of them, do I just pull out the inner part?Loved our trip to the West Coast USA. Death Valley is the place to go!0 -
Mine is a different Salvia to yours. I have just cut the long flower itself leaving the green bush. Thats what i was told to do anyway.
Info here on your particular one http://yardener.com/YardenersPlantHelper/LandscapePlantFiles/FilesAboutFlowers/FlowersAnnuals/RedSalvia/CaringforRedSalvia
Here is mine (when in flower)
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As far as I know the red Salvia is an annual flower and the blue one is a form of the herb Salvia (Sage), cutting back is definitely the best treatment for the herb.
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