Salvia iodantha is big, flashy and unruly. Masses of fuchsia/magenta/red-purple flowers begin in mid-Autumn and continue on for months on long canes. I find the plant impossible to tame, although I’m not a persistent pruner. Left to itself, canes grow from the base to many metres long, then arch over at flowering time. When I have pruned it, it didn’t respond by bushing out, just sent out single branches of the canes, resulting in an unappealing shape. It’s definitely one for the background if you don’t mind it falling over…
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