Oh, I loved his candid, "To be honest, I've never tried to move them. If I realize I've planted them in the wrong place, I dig them up and chuck them." Spoken like a real gardener. (EDITED to add: Like you say, Alexandra, we, gardeners, learn by "trowel and error".)
WOW!!! William Dyson is indeed and EXPERT!! One of the best interviews I've ever heard about any plants, including Salvia! I have a blue salvia, which comes back every year and has lovely blue flowers. It also has an aroma, a medicinal smell. The bees love it, after the blooms are spent I cut back in hope of another flush, but only a few new flowers emerge. I cut back to the ground when it goes brown. Thank you Alexandra for a wonderful Saliva video!!!
Excellent video. I had a love affair with Salvias 2 years ago and so I have quite a few different ones. I find I hate to waste the trimmings or accidental broken pieces so so matter what time of the year here in Adelaide South Australia I just turn them into either shorter cuttings or sometimes I leave them as rather large cuttings, poke a piece of bamboo the length of the part of the cutting I have removed the lower leaves and just stick them in the ground. More often than not they take and because my garden is small and quite full I find I have plants to give to family, friends and neighbours x 🌼🌼🌼🙏😇🇦🇺🌼🌼🌼🕊️
I've only just discovered the Salvia! I bought one randomly mid summer this year, in full bloom. Plonked it in to my dreadfully chalk garden and it flowered right through the heatwave, didn't affect it at all and it is still in flower right now mid November! I'm going to invest in these next year for sure.
When I was a newbie gardener few years back I bought a $1 plant - didn't know what it was - turned out to be an annual salvia - flowered for like 8 months ! Perfect for hot dry places in my garden too. Bees love em, don't need any fuss and bother. I haven't got a perennial one just yet, but one day,
I planted a new bed in spring this year including a Salvia 'Hot Lips'. We had this horrible drought in the UK (I'm on the South coast) and the Salvia outperformed everything else in the bed by miles, completely unperturbed by the weather. We took to calling it the bee bush because it didn't seem to matter when we looked, there was always at least one bee visiting. In late summer we got the hummingbird hawk moths mentioned in this video and they are truly amazing to watch and I'm sure they wouldn't have been in the garden without the Salvia. Three more from the 'Lips' family have been planted in the 'wild' end of the garden in semi shade. I hope they'll are happy there. Note - heavy clay soil here and Salvia didn't seem to mind at all.
Alexandra, I always get useful advice from your videos. I pruned my salvias in the spring correctly, but it’s good to know I can cut them back mid summer for another flush of blooms. Seeing flowers only on the tips has been bothering me for months! Salvias are one of my favorite perennials - they bloom prolifically, require little maintenance and very important for my area, the rabbits leave them alone.
I have 5 white salvias and one purple one.I love them!All the pollinators are all over them.I am in New Jersey and they are still flowering.After their first flowering is done I do cut them back and in a few weeks they are in full bloom again.I do prune the spent flowers every 3 weeks or so.During the drought this summer I gave them each a gallon of water once a week they don't necessarily need it but I do see them perk up when they get it.This is also the first time I just fed them once at the beginning of the season and they did great.Thanks for the Salvia Show!!!😊
I see I've already communicated on this video in the past. I just listened to it again and still learnt from it. Very interesting and informative. Thank you for asking great questions and getting honest answers. Your guests are amazing x 🧡💛🧡🙏😇🇦🇺🧡💛🧡🌼🕊️
Salvias are one of my favorite plants. The coccinea variety I grow is a self-seeder without being obnoxious. It's not hardy in my area so I'm happy to see the new plants every year. I have found the seedlings transplant easily.
Love Salvias. Mr Dyson is an excellent grower. I have every type of salvia; shrubby ones, tender perennials, including ones with tangerine scented leaves and the fabulous tall and elegant Amistads. I have light sandy soil which they do well in. Very good value for money too with colour all through summer until Autumn every year. If you live near Kent, Mr Dyson’s gardens are delightful.
This was SOOOOOOOO helpful. Thank you both for taking the time to put this together and post it for all of us to see. Take care and have a good week. DA
I enjoy listening to and learning from people with deep knowledge of their trade, and Mr. Dyson certainly fits the bill. Thanks for the time and effort to bring valuable content to growers around the globe. Best, San Antonio, TX grower
I moved some purple salvia ( don't know what kind) in the fall. House next door with a garden got sold, and new owners didn't want this style of garden, so I moved a lot of plants into my garden,including Salvia. It was late fall, and we have cold winters with snow all winter and around -20 C. Not only did it survive its first winter in a new place, but it is the showiest of the flowers in my border. My garden is very young, and this portion has been created only last fall, so it's less than a year old. Today, I did some cuttings of Salvia and stuck it in the ground everywhere. I hope it will take root. Thank you, for another wonderful video!
I have a small front Garden and have salvia amistad and salvia love and wishes growing in pots. I keep them in a glasshouse in winter and bring them out in early April and feed them with tomato feed up until the end of august.
Thank you from Melbourne, Australia ☺️Salvias grow well in our climate & are great for attracting small wrens & finches. There was lots of great information in this video (as usual), & an especial thanks for taking the time to write the varieties on the screen so we know which is which!
Thank you, enjoyed the video and the infarction parted, Planted my first Salvia Microphyllia “Hot Lips” 2/3 weeks ago and I’m in love with it already, it’s flying up!! Caught my eye in the garden centre and I seen the first bee on the flower yesterday and a few today, such a simple joy.
I did dig up one of my salvias microphylla and moved it to another place last autumn, it didn't suffer at all. Like nothing happened really. I pruned it hard before moving it though, which I think might have helped. Also the cuttings! Last year my dog broke a branch of my Salvia Phyllis Fancy, so I made 5 little cuttings out of it and now I have five new pants blooming right now (it's an autumn flowering hybrid). Such great plants. Thanks for this video!
That's lovely to hear - you clearly did the right thing by pruning it hard before moving to reduce the root to shoot ratio (I'm now thinking I should have done that with a tree we moved.)
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden yes, exactly. I did the same with a quite massive Lonicera fragrantissima, I knew I was bound to damage the root ball a good deal, so I reduced all the branches to one third, possibly even more. And it didn't suffer at all, i think I actually rejuvenate it!
Thank you Alexandria . I'm in NW FLA zone 8b and consider myself a hobby gardener . Love all salvias and especially big blue ones . I live on 2.5 acres of very sandy and partially shaded soil . I find your videos very appealing .
Good afternoon Alexandra, Salvias are such beautiful trumpet flowers, some how I think penstemon should be planted close-by!! I prefer the darker shades of salvias, I have two blues, one dark blue with an almost black looking stem and another just because the blue is so pretty. I love the purple and dark red we saw on the video. i think I have read somewhere you can divide salvias as well, as they can form clumps if taken care I am sure you can divide. I think I will try and see if the nursery has some of the abovementioned colours in stock. A good idea of planting under or close to fruit trees, carpenter bees and hover flies are great insects to have in the flowerbed. Thank you for the lovely and interesting chat, time well spent to listen. Love your necklace, very smart indeed. My dahlias which did not get too much late winter rain have sprouted in the tubs, now I am in two minds, shall I leave them or plant. I'll leave I think and see how they do, if not great I can always removed them gently and plant out. Do take care, be alert, many blessings and kind regards. Oh have a lovely week end. It is extremely hot, not rain, maybe next week for S. Africa.
Merci. Vos vidéos de jardinage sont les plus passionnantes de toutes. On apprend plein de choses dans chacune. Et même si j’ai un grand jardin méditerranéen français, j’adore me promener avec vous en Angleterre. Merci de m’avoir fait découvrir le couteau de désherbage hori hori. J’en ai acheté un aujourd’hui, et je me demande comment j’ai pu faire sans jusqu’à présent, c’est absolument génial !!! Bonne année et merci de continuer à nous poster des vidéos utiles.
salvia concolor is a personal favorite, hummingbirds love it. y'all brits need to visit central and south America to see the hummingbirds sipping from salvias in cloud forests. it's something.
Dear Alexandra, I'm a great fan of your RU-vid channel, thank you for being so sincere and benevolent...I've learnt so much from your videos. Greetings from Croatia! 🤗💚
Thank you! I am thinking about it, although most old gardening hands say that if desperate, deer and rabbits will eat anything, and there's nothing totally deer-resistant. Plant expert Rosy Hardy says that high fences are the only way.
Such crucial information on salvias Alexandra! I need to try some of the annual varieties, they are so beautiful. I tend to grow the perennials and hardy sages.
Hello, I'm across the pond in USA and just planted some Salvia plants in soil disturbed by machinery with poor topsoil. I use pine bark mulch to top-dress the soil surrounding the container soil. Intend to add a longer lasting mulch in autumn. Also considering placement of a Becky Shasta Daisy as a backdrop for contrast.
I have about 5 varieties of salvia... Zone 7a in NJ... and they have grown beautifully in my gardens for 4 years now as perennials. I cut them back in late Fall and mulch with chopped maple leaves. I have also moved several of them this past spring but I find that the taller varieties that he spoke of with larger leaves (like black & blue salvia) need to be transplanted early in spring when they are just emerging because their root system is so large! Hummingbirds love salvia more than any other plant in my garden so I no longer put out hummingbird feeders. All my salvia is planted in full sun but I was happy to hear the larger leaf varieties can take shade! I can't wait to move some next spring to a shady spot! I do not use any fertilizer on any perennials in my garden and they bloom wonderfully! This was such an informative video! Thank you for sharing this wealth of information with us! Choosing Joy ~ stephanie
Another terrific interview! Mr. Dyson knows his salvias! Sage/salvias were always purple or blue, so these new colors are exciting. I bought the cherry-red 'greggii' recently (two sad-looking plants in one tiny plastic pot, for $2.50 on a clearance shelf). After a good chop and some regular water, it flowered nicely. Time to tease the roots apart and transplant them into their own pots. (Autumn is dry here). Lemon Vebena (Aloysia citriodora), grows well in the same conditions. Its flowers are tiny, but the leaves smell like lemon (can be used as an herb or for making tea). I thought my woody old plant was dead, but I cut it back hard, and new sprouts came up from the root, just as he said.
Tried Salvias before but they didn't live, bought two last year and they came back beautifully this year. Didn't know about the difference in the size of the leaves, good to know, thank you. Great info video! Linda from S.W. Washington State. Love all your info videos, thank you!
Hi Alexandra, Thank you for the interesting video, please can you tell me what is the lime green plant with bamboo kind of leaves, behind the benches both of you are sitting on. Many thanks
Fabulous video thank you. I have a lot of Salvias, they are easy to take cuttings from. I have also moved a few with success I am pleased to say. Maybe I’ve been lucky.
I had ‘Hot Lips’ that seeded out & 1 grew in a crack in the sidewalk, in busy Monterey Calif. interestingly, people were very careful not to step on it🥰💐🌸
I have 3 Salvia Nemorosa ost friesland variety in my front garden and I love it's vibrant purple shade, almost fluorescent. I did fed my salvia this spring with manure pellets. I do have clay soil, but it is heavily enhanced with compost by now. Good to know that they don't necessarily need fertilization. So I will skip using the pellets next year, but am going to add compost this fall on the front garden. Since two years I am using a company nearby that sells peat free compost in bulk for a cheap price. Really loving the results, also for newly dug borders in the back garden. Beneath the paving is always a layer of sand, which I replace with the compost. The plants seem to love it and are doing well.
I bought a packet from home depot this Spring and didn't expect bloom until next year, to my surprise I saw one of the most beautiful little blue bloom on it couple weeks ago, I was looking for something blue to go with my white roses ,can't wait for it to get established next spring
I bought the small variety of Foxgloves, the first season thee was not much to see but this season they are just gorgeous, white, pink and yellow. Nature always brings us surprises, enjoy!
What wonderful information on Salvias. Thank you for this. I potted two salvias in containers early on this summer and the tag read they were full sun loving plants. I placed them in the sun and the poor darlings wilted significantly in one day. I did move them to a part sun, part shady area and they thrived there. Learning here about the size of the leaves and knowing what to look out for is very helpful when the tag isn’t spot on.
In my experience, if you plant them into the garden, there is no need for watering. If you plant them into a pot, you better water them every couple of days.
@@philshaw439 yes I agree but I don’t think it was a water issue. There’s drip ran to my containers so they get water when they need it. My salvias have been thriving now for three months since placed them in less sunny locations. After watching this video, I learned these salvia type did not require full sun.
Excellent video, great tips. I've bought my first ever salvias this year and they're giving a great display. I shall be buying more next year, try different ones for different locations. Thank you 😊
Thank you, what beautiful examples of flowering gardens you shared! I grow mostly natives, zone 7a, and the only two salvias that are endemic to my area are Salvia lyrata (lyre-leaf) and Salvia urticifolia (nettle-leaf sage). Both are blue and not as showy as the ones on the video, but the bees LOOOOOOVE them, and since I plant for wildlife, that makes them beautiful to me. I actually like lyre-leaf very much. It's not very tall, so I have masses of them in front of borders. The basal leaves remain through most of winter and have a purple-red tinge to the veins and edges, so they are often a good surprise to notice "perking up" after a frosty day.
Is the plant we call Salvia here in the States different than that of the UK? I noticed mine looks nothing like that of what was presented, and then maybe I'm just ignorant the the varieties.
I think that with over 900 varieties, there probably is quite a difference, and you may have more of the kinds we don't have. I've noticed that some do look a bit different in the US videos. Also we've had a really tough summer here, and although the salvias survived better than most plants, no plants are flowering at their maximum so it may be that there are fewer flowers than usual, which would make them look different in photos.
Btw. I’m in southern Ontario Canada zone 6b and our winters can be ferocious dipping to -20c at times. I haven’t dug mine up and they’re fine come spring.
This was interesting as I love Salvias but I am very confused about the different types of salvias and the growing requirements for each. I have about 20 varieties of salvias but have no idea which sort needs what. I have hot lips, cherry lips and amethyst lips which I am assuming are the shrubby Mexican type referred to in the video. I also salvia black and blue, Amistad, deep purple, Caradonna and others. Cabnyou recommend a good source for investigating the types and requirements please? Thank you :-) x
Hi. It depends also on where you live. Salvia hot lips is an annual in my zone 7 in Georgia (never had one come back though it says zone 7 is possible). Salvia greggii types I think is what he means for Mexican shrubby types, and I do have them come back each year. Black and blue may or may not come back depending on where you live, but I suggest just Googling the varieties are are growing. I have gotten new salvias in containers for this year- Roman Red (wonderful so far and I showed it in my last video), Salvia Blue Chill, Salvia Arctic Fuschia, Wendy's Wish, Mirage Purple and Mirage Red, Salvia Vibe Ignition purple, Maraschino Cherry, Rockin Fuschia (not doing well so far) and I got several agastache plants too. My containers are sitting on concrete, so I am hoping they will do great with the extra heat. There really is great information if you just Google each variety. Blessings.
One long lasting flowering plant I love is New Zealand nightshade. Lovely purple flowers that last all year and birds love the berries. It is more like a tree, but when grown in a pot it won't get so big and uncontrollable
What a great video! Thank you. I am forwarding the link to our garden club! I find my Amistad survive the winter (usually) but I had 2 ‘Love & Wishes’ in the same bed that didn’t make it, and I’m in Hampshire! Would it help to mulch these PLUS put an upturned clay pot over the top? They quite quickly become quite big plants to dig up each year! I have some in pots too, no problem moving those snow I have a little trolley!
Thank you, and yes, it is sad, because hummingbirds are so beautiful. We do have something called a hummingbird hawk moth (which is a moth, not a bird), which is a wonderfully clumsy looking creature, very clunky, but adorable.
I’ve overwintered in an unheated garage successfully- I just watered them a few times over the winter so they didn’t get too dry. My garage is attached to my house though, so I don’t know if that makes a difference?
