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hybridizing california native salvias
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Posted by salviakeeper CA (My Page) on Fri, Jan 29, 10 at 15:12
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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RE: hybridizing california native salvias
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| sounds great! Got pictures? :) |
RE: hybridizing california native salvias
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| Yes, but i need to find out how to upload...didn't see an option on the post |
RE: hybridizing california native salvias
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- Posted by wcgypsy 10 / Sunset 23 (My Page) on
Fri, Jan 29, 10 at 18:49
| This is one of the things I look forward to most..seeing what seedlings will occur...love surprises! |
RE: hybridizing california native salvias
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- Posted by dicot Los Angeles (My Page) on
Fri, Jan 29, 10 at 19:07
| When you say "S. apiana x mellifera," do you mean S. 'Starlight' or something different? pics can be posted using standard html code. |
RE: hybridizing california native salvias
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| 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'. |
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