Hi Helena, have not heard from you recently. This one likes cool foggy weather. One I had in a greenhouse one winter went nuts, putting out lots of long aerial roots during a particularly humid spell that turned sunny later. I guess it is really a cloud forest plant. I'd save seed on this one as a way to keep it going.

Hi Rich, thanks for the info. I hope to collect seed from it. Read that it can take a light frost so maybe it'll overwinter for me here. I have quite a few salvias that I got from you blooming now, but what's surprising me is that some of the Mexicanas are coming into bloom too. I'm very interested in getting some of your new ones when you have them available this summer.

Hi Helena,

You did well, so happy that you have it flowering away now, something magical about salvia seeds isnt there?

Annette

Hi Annette,

I had fun watching this salvia grow, even take root into another pot next to it. It is different from the others, all those tiny hairs. So easy to fall in love with each of them. I have 'Raspbery Truffle' starting to bloom, hopefully it'll make seeds, SL411 is starting to bloom so nicely now and Mex. 'Elise' is blooming and quite a few others too.

Helena

I'm getting a lot of blooming also, but the feature I am seeing is that the blooms (and growth) are much more robust than years past in the spring. We are well into May, when the max temps usually always reach 83 degrees F. We are still having days in the 70's, and regaler rain. This is the cause. I hope it lasts at least a few more weeks. Maybe Mother Nature is being nice to us because of last year's drought and heat, which really messed up my plants.

SL411 and dichlamys are really growing and blooming well for me, but are a little trickier to root. That may be a good sign, though, because I have observed the slowness of rooting to parallel with the durability of the plant to heat and other stresses.

It maybe your climate Richard as the dichlamys and sl411 rooted real quick here.

Cheers A.