Month: November 2017

Salvia Amistad

Stephen Carlin

Salvia ‘Amistad’ is one of the best performing cultivars and a must-have plant for a salvia collection. It has large purple-blue flowers in dark purple calyces, and will flower abundantly for most of the year in warm climates. It is a bushy salvia, about 1.5 m high and 2 m across. Leaves are around 7 x 5 cm, broad at the base and coming to a point, mid green and covered with tiny stiff hairs. Amistad was discovered and introduced by Argentine salvia expert Rolando Uria. It is believed to…

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Salvia cultivation; what are the best growing conditions?

Stephen Carlin

Salvia cultivation overall tends to be straightforward. They are on the whole undemanding plants with a few pests and a few basic needs. There are a few generalisations that can be made. As a group, they tend to like deep, well drained soil, and are not overly fussy about pH or soil nutrients. Of course the more you get to know them the more you see that they are a diverse group and have a matching range of optimal growing conditions, which you can use to your advantage in siting…

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