Salvia 'Cambridge Blue'
By Siris
- 19 Oct, 2020
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I had to take over 6 pics in order to get one flower in focus, although there are about 5 flowers at present. It is planted in the ground.
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Yes a lovely one. I worked in a Cambridge bookshop once ... perhaps I should grow it too!
19 Oct, 2020
It certainly is a beautiful shade of blue?
19 Oct, 2020
ditto - Electric Blue!
20 Oct, 2020
One of my favourites I'm collecting seed from it at the moment ...
20 Oct, 2020
Amy, I hope your seelings will have 'true' blue flowers. This was a vegetative cutting.
21 Oct, 2020
They have come true before Sue and the Oxford blue fingers crossed for next year ...
21 Oct, 2020
Amy, is Oxford blue lighter or darker than Cambridge? The 'blurb' on the web information is misleading, also some of the pics show intense blue some pale blue. Some show Oxford blue flowers with a touch of white, but that might be a feflection of light!
24 Oct, 2020
The Oxford blue is lighter Sue more a nice paler sky blue .. I've never had white on Oxford blue so could be as you say the reflection ..
24 Oct, 2020
I thought the other way round because in the boat race the Oxford crew are in dark blue and the Cambridge crew are “the light blues”! But I’m often wrong ...
24 Oct, 2020
Sheila you are quite right what was I thinking , I hope Siris sees my mistake , I'm having too many senior moments lately I can't even blame the Covid unless I've had it and didn't know .🤨 ..
Sheila was the book shop Heffers ?
25 Oct, 2020
Amy, yes I worked in Heffers Children’s shop in the 1990s, it was great fun. Though I was older than most of my colleagues we got on really well and still keep in touch!
25 Oct, 2020
Thank you Amy & Sheila, glad it brought back some reminders of your past lives.
25 Oct, 2020
We have this one....seeds from Amy.....has been an absolute star ⭐️ this year...
10 Nov, 2020
All my Salvias have done brilliantly this year, the herbaceous ones and the shrubby ones, flowered for ever once they started.
10 Nov, 2020
Yes Siris....too well in some cases......had to remove Amistad.....she was enormous....need to find somewhere at the very back of the border for her....
10 Nov, 2020
Like Dotty, I have a huge Salvia Amistad - just taken six cuttings and put the parent in the greenhouse!
11 Nov, 2020
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Salvia Patens 'Guanajuato'
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Beautiful colour - reminder of my birthplace University colour. Perhaps I should grow it!!
19 Oct, 2020