hybridizing california native salvias

14 years ago

After collecting and planting CA natives, especially salvias, as mother nature would have it, they have been hybridizing and some of the results are fun and interesting, especially when they sport 4+ species in their background. The latest to flower is from a seedling found under S. brandegei 'Pacific Blue" (probably brandegei x munzii according to most) and an S. apiana x mellifera that is grown from a cutting found out on a mountain side. This plant is now flowering at 3 years old.

Also anxiously awaiting flowers from a S. dorrii hybrid purchased at a nursery that appears to have hybridized with a neighboring leucophylla 'Figueroa Mtn' which is an enormous old specimen 6'x 18'.

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voodoobrew
14 years ago
sounds great! Got pictures? :)
salviakeeper
Original Author
14 years ago
Yes, but i need to find out how to upload...didn't see an option on the post
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wcgypsy
14 years ago
This is one of the things I look forward to most..seeing what seedlings will occur...love surprises!
dicot
14 years ago
When you say "S. apiana x mellifera," do you mean S. 'Starlight' or something different?

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salviakeeper
Original Author
14 years ago
This particular hybrid is one I found by the trailside out in the local mountains. Same cross as starlight but this one is somewhat different, tall, lanky and much more open than starlight but with similar leaf texture, not flowering so profusely as starlight. I do have a few S. starlight pups, one probably hybridized with S. 'pozo blue' and another likely with S. clevelandi 'Winifred Gilman'.