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Title: Salvia leucantha
Post by: Alice on October 23, 2012, 05:57:22 PM

Salvia leucantha flowering now.

Title: Re: Salvia leucantha
Post by: John on October 24, 2012, 11:29:44 PM

A friend just bought a clone of this Salvia at the Autumn RHS show in Westminster. It will grow in sheltered gardens in London but struggles to flower before the cold shuts it down.

Title: Re: Salvia leucantha
Post by: cicerone on April 22, 2013, 02:47:22 AM

Very common (and beautiful) in California. I never water it, coppiced it several times and it keeps on coming back. My kind of plant!

Title: Re: Salvia leucantha
Post by: Trevor Australis on April 22, 2013, 06:09:04 AM

How about the S. leucantha hybrids PINK VELOUR and WHITE VELOUR. T-riffic. They seem pretty hardy in our light frost and wet winters, suckering well and coming back year after year.

Title: Re: Salvia leucantha
Post by: JAK on May 19, 2013, 03:15:07 PM

My Leucantha is one of the worker bees in my garden  and just keeps on flowering but right now is the peak. I should try some hybrids but Im really happy with the way this performs.