[medit-plants] Re: Salvias that are drought tolerant

The first one is Salvia microphylla ‘Hot Lips’.  Depending on where you are located, it is a moderate water user.  We evaluated it in our irrigation field trials and found the best performance at this level.  We irrigated once every 3-4 weeks with about 14 gallons or about 2 ¾” of water, and our soil is silty clay loam.  You would need more frequent irrigation with less water in a sandy soil, but this one definitely loves the heat. For best appearance and continual flowering, hedge it back by 25-30% after each big flush of flowering, at least once in late spring and once in fall when it begins to have more dried flowers than fresh.  This practice really does make a difference.  Perhaps someone else can ID the pink one.

 

Karrie

 

From: medit-plants-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:medit-plants-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jeanne Bardems
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 9:16 AM
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Subject: [medit-plants] Salvias that are drought tolerant

 

Dear Medit-Plants people,

I'm learning more about Salvias. A number of the types I've experimented with did very poorly during the dry summer. I now see that these were the more tropical types. I'm interested to try more of the drought tolerant types. There are so many different Salvias it can be very confusing. Do any of you know of some lists of drought tolerant Salvias? Also, I saw the following two Salvias growing locally which seem to do well during our dry summers. I hope the photos are clear enough. If anyone knows what they are I would be very grateful.

Jeannie B

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