Salvia microphylla Cerro Potosi
By Dawnsaunt
- 17 Sep, 2015
- 10 likes
I don't know the variety but think it's one of the Salvia microphylla. Love this one, flowers for ages and ages.
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Hi Amy. Salvia are amazing, aren't they. I think painted lady is redder, this has all cerise flowers. I have a really good garden centre a couple of miles away that had only recently opened to the public as wholesale previously. Great plants, reasonable but not always labelled! They grow alot themselves but mainly bedding plants and annuals.
17 Sep, 2015
Its hard isn't and no help if they're not labeled but worth having if they are good healthy plants ,I keep all my labels but even then they can look a completely different colour than that on the label ...
17 Sep, 2015
I keep labels too Amy, well I try to but I never seem to find the one I want!
17 Sep, 2015
Love these S. microphylla as they're SO long flowering :) This one is very like my 'Cero Potosi' but there are so many!
18 Sep, 2015
Very effective love the colour.
18 Sep, 2015
Thanks Thru.
Sheila, it does look like yours so thats what i will name it, thank ou.
Yes flower for so long. Do you take cutting Sheila. I do to place it safe.
18 Sep, 2015
Yes Dawn . . . one of the easiest shrubs to 'strike' (and you've put me in my place by the spelling it correctly)!
18 Sep, 2015
Haha, I said place it safe instead of play it safe, no worries.
Another bonus isn't it how easy they are to propagate.
19 Sep, 2015
Love these plants....
20 Sep, 2015
Lovely colour, agree great plants, I have Penny's Smile similar colour its not stopped flowering since May .
22 Sep, 2015
Me too DD, they are brilliant. I know Kathy, flower for ages and need nothing doing to them. Pity most are tender but easy to take cuttings from.
23 Sep, 2015
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I can't say Dawn so many are similar the leaves look like Painted Lady do you have mauve ones in amongst them ....
17 Sep, 2015