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Salvia Sclarea (ID sorted) (Salvia sclarea (Clary))

25 June 2014
For Simbad :-) Flowered for the first time :-)

It's grown so huge (at least to my eyes); far taller than I expected. Maybe I should split it sometime? I'm not sure. Perhaps it's better to wait and see how it will go next year and decide?

By the way I noticed this doesn't look like "Salvia Patens" at all when I looked at Garden centre photos. I must have put the wrong name tag on the seedlings!



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It's Salvia Sclarea Tommymoo and a lovely clump too :-), it says its either biennial or perennial some here have come back for several years others haven't but it will self seed so keep your eye open for seedlings:-) or collect seed to be on the safe side.
Did you get my email ? The iris are all planted out such lovely big plants, thank you :-) x

8 Jul, 2014

 

Don't know if I sent you salvia patens seed to can't remember,I do have it though if you'd like me to collect seed ;-)

8 Jul, 2014

 

Its lovely, Tommy, I'm beginning to like Salvia alot.
Kathy, I have one Salvia sclarea turkestanica which is massive, its a beauty at the moment. So are they perennial or biennial, just that my original ones seem to have vanished.

8 Jul, 2014

 

Thank you for your kind comments Simbad & Dawnsaunt!

Simbad,
Thanks very much for your precious advice and info. So it's Sclarea "Piemont"? My darker-coloured Sclarea comes back every year although I don't know if it's because it's biennial/perennial or it self-seeded. I hope this one will do the same anyway :-) I love the gentle colour of this Sclarea. Thanks once again for the seeds!!

9 Jul, 2014

 

Oh I was wrong, "Piemont" is the darker purple one, so this must be Salvia sclarea "Turkestanica" which Dawnsaunt has.

11 Jul, 2014

 

That's right Tommymoo the darker ones Piemont, I did grow a white one to but when it flowered I couldn't tell the difference between it and this one,very similar or the supplier mixed the seed up :-)

11 Jul, 2014



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