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Salvia splendens "Yvones Giant"

meanie

By Meanie


Salvia splendens "Yvones Giant" (Salvia splendens)

To give you a sense of scale the garden slopes down and that trellis starts at about two metres!



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So many flowers :-D:-D

22 Sep, 2016

 

It is really just a selected strain of the true species. Very different to the ones that you get in GC's as bedding plants.

22 Sep, 2016

 

Striking colour....lovely!?

23 Sep, 2016

 

Maggie - it's a striking plant that does justice to the true species that the small bedding varieties do not.

24 Sep, 2016



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