Re:Salvia sclarea

Dear Glen,

I have what sounds to be a similar variety grown from seed from Thompson and
Morgan, labeled var turkestanica It was far larger than I expected it to be,
and quite grand.
It was NOT perennial in my climate.  It survived its first rosette year
through a very cold (for us--16°F) week of winter. It bloomed massively and
profusely, and then quietly and raggedly died. It did set massive quantities
of seeds which have sprouted.

I like this plant and will continue to grow it in the wilder portions of my
gardens, but a bloom and die plant of such large porportions was hard to fit
into some of my other areas. Perhaps your experience will be different.  In
my yard it was growing in a hot and dry site. It was not frost that led to
its demise.

Rebecca Lance,
Sonora CA
Sierra Foothills 1900ft
Sunset zone 7-8

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>Subject: MEDIT-PLANTS digest 1758
>Date: Sat, Dec 9, 2000, 12:11 AM
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>  Salvia sclarea ' Turkestanica '. Betty Clebsch gives this as being white
> or with a pink tinge. I have a form I received as ' Turkestanica ' but with
> pink/violet bracts, a white lip & blue ' hood '. Definitely far grander than
> the normal clary sage I've grown in the past. Would this be the ' Vatican
> strain ' she talks about ? Given that I'm frost free, how truly perennial is
> it ?
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