Re: salvia indigo spires
- To: r*@california.com, medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: salvia indigo spires
- From: S* G*
- Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 21:03:35 PDT
>I have 2 salvia indigo spires and love them dearly. But their habit of
>flopping, especially the one in the shadier area, doesn't please me. I know
>that this is a characteristic but I'm wondering if any of you have found a
>way of pruning that helps. Staking hasn't worked very well either.
>
>Barbara - in Berkeley
>
Not me anyway! I grow some amongst lemon trees, tree lupins, phlomis and
iris - the colour is fantastic - really very intense - but last season they
sent long stems every where. Not that I have tried it - but I wonder whether
those 'stakes' fashioned as hoops with three/four legs (don't know if they
have a proper name)would work? I have seen them at Cruden Farm and Burnley
Gardens in Melbourne, and they use them in their herbaceous borders for
larger perennials. I am currently having one made as a trial for my own
garden - but have never seen them for sale at nurseries.
Susan George
McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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