21 December 2024
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These varied plants bring so much to the garden
After all the rainwater we ’ve take in so far this year , the garden is looking brisk , full and mythological . The kaleidoscope of color has arrived , as if Mother Nature has pour forth her intact paint palette on the garden . With all this variety , the conflict is n’t rule option , it ’s pick out just one to write about ! Julia x
Salvias are a wide - roam genus include Hellenic edge perennials in the form ofS. nemorosaandS. x sylvestriscultivars ; nemorosa and sylvestris intend ‘ of woodwind ’ , referring to the innate habitat of these salvias , typically found growing in groves and woods across central Europe and Western Asia .
Others vary in their needs , from the marvellous wet loving bog sageS. uliginosa , to the drought repellent and short - lived , silvern - woollyS. argentea . The genus also includesS. rosmarinus(rosemary),S. officinalis(common salvia ) and its edition . Salvias are native to all continent , ( exclude the Arctic & Antarctic ) , with more than 1,000 species and nearly 300 in Mexico alone . Most will require full Sunday , with some of the shrubby coinage enjoying a sheltered garden position .
For the herbaceous salvia , once bloom have languish in midsummer , the spikes can be removed to boost a 2d bloom of smaller flowers . In later winter / early spring , last year ’s spent flora material can be cut down to the footing ready for the newfangled maturation to emerge from the top .
disregarding of ontogeny , form , stature or position , any salvia in flower will be a officious , buzzy melée of insect bodily function . Bilaterally symmetrical flowers restrict the range of pollinators to primarily bees , especially humblebee , the size of which reflects the size of the blossom in each specie .
Species of micromoths apply shape of salvia as their larval food plant . In the autumn , the seed - fountainhead are attractive in their own rightfield and check seeds that are food for finches such as goldfinches , while the semen - headway also provide shelter for beneficial predators such as ladybirds , as well as smaller dirt ball and spiders that may be gleaned by Sir Christopher Wren .
Salvia ‘Blue Spire’ (syn. perovskia)
Popular salvias
Salvia‘Blue Spire ’ ( syn . perovskia )
Makes a vertical lineament as soon as the slender , whitened stems , lightly clad in fine - cut greyness leaves , appear in the ironical cheery garden . By mid - summertime they are topped with long spire of lavender - blue flower .
Salvia‘Hot Lips ’
Salvia ‘Hot Lips’
Produces small , aromatic green leaves and peak in midsummer to fall , bicolored crimson and livid , sometimes completely livid when the day shorten . Very floriferous in all its colour level , extend to the first frost .
Salvia sclarea var . turkestanica(biennial clary sage )
An tumid perennial or biennial with hirsute wrinkle , mid - light-green folio . spike of large white flowers with pink bracts from spring to summertime . will seed freely and some seedling may blossom in the first year .
Salvia sclarea var. turkestanica
Salvia patens‘Cambridge Blue ’ ( gentian sage )
Gaping mouthed tube-shaped flush 5 atomic number 96 long , in pale sky - naughty , open in couple over many weeks on slender spire . well in an open cheery web site . An extra mulch will help protect the rootstock over winter .
Salvia x sylvestris‘Mainacht ’ ( wood sage )
Salvia patens ‘Cambridge Blue’
A German cross betweenS. pratensisandS. nemorosa , attain bushy plants crowded with dense school principal of deep purple blossom , enhanced by dark stems and red bracts , very effectual individually , or in group for landscape event .
Salvia x sylvestris ‘Mainacht’
