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Salvias & Portulaca

Ciao a tutti,

Finally my little nursery is ready to be opened to the public and  
now  the perennial benches are  full of colours:Crocosmia masonorum is
in full bloom and Leonotis leonurus start to show its strange cluster.
One of my favourite is Portulaca umbraticula with its fleshy leaves 
and red or yellow flowers.

I'd like to specialize in producing and selling medit plants, but I 
have to sell more common plants too such as Geraniums, Petunias and 
so on.

I'm planning to grow some Salvia species (I've thought about 
S.argentea, S. barrelieri, S. sclarea for annual and biennial 
species;S. coccinea, S. farinacea, S. nemorosa, S. palaestina for 
perennial and S. leucantha) and I'd like to grow some of them in 
terracotta pots.
Have anyone of you some experience or advise on that?

Second question: some of my beloved Portulaca umbraticula suffer from 
an aphid attack that caused leaves yellowing and the 
shoots have grown longer than normal and look like etiolated
potato shoots.
I've sprayed with pyrethrum, but aphids are back again and I think
they were infected with some virus....
Any idea?

Thanks in advance

Bye
Paolo 







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Paolo Mottola
pmottola@thebrain.net
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