Salvia gregii is one of our go-to plants here in Texas, but our nurseries do not typically stock named varieties. ‘Hot Lips’ is the first thing we planted at our first home 38 yrs ago. Now I want more ‘Moonlight’ a beautiful, full-flowering variety which can be hard to find. So I will propogate my own in these last of the warm fall days! Thank you for the tutorial.
Hello Carolyn - thank you for watching and for your comment - so interesting to us that you are in Texas. "Moonlight" sounds beautiful. May we wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year All the best 🌸
Lovely job, I do love this plant. The one in my parents garden is massive! I took cuttings from it around 3 years ago and they are really big and healthy. Brilliant stuff👍🏻
Love this hearty plant! It was a fraction of it’s eventual size(huge) when I first planted it. Trimmed and planted my cuttings to winter inside. Will plant in several spots in my pollinator garden this coming spring. Thank you for the great tips!❤️
Not just a great video - but a smashing course in horticulture. I'm really enjoying all your videos as I'm currently doing the online RHS Level 2 course in horticulture, and these are an excellent way of actually seeing an expert doing what I'm trying to visualise! You also both have an easy teaching style which makes things look so much easier to do, and gives me more confidence to actually go and do it. Thanks again for your time and effort - although it comes across that you both love doing it anyway. Cheers
Hi Andrew - thank you for watching our videos and for supporting our channel: we initially started the videos as an aid to our students so it’s great to hear your feedback. Our best wishes to you in your studies and also wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas 🎄- in the meantime keep safe and happy 🌸
Thank you for your lovely message - we set up the channel initially as an aid for our students and it’s great to think we are on the right track - thing to remember is keep your cuttings warm at the base for this time of year All the best 🌸
Thank you so much for sharing this information one of the branches fell off mine during a storm and I didn’t want all the growth to go to waste. I will definitely be trying this out!
Thanks so much, I will try this as I only have one hot lips Salvia and would love to try my hand at propogating it! Mine attracts loads of hummingbirds and I love the spicy scent and its long flowering season.
Hello Mary Ann - thank you for watching and it sounds heavenly where you are Hot Lips is so pretty in the garden and I am sure you will have great success propagating it Have a good week All the best 🌸
Hello @paulmaine thank you for watching our video and for your very kind comment 💚 to be in the safe side out the plants out in spring after any chance of frost has gone Have a great week All the best Melanie and John 🌸
Thanks so much for this. I propogated a few three days ago. The leaves are starting to wilt and im a bit worried... i never let the soil look dry so maybe i should cover it with a bag and only water it once a day?
Hello suji G - thank you for watching 💚 Yes cover with a bag and keep the compost as dry as you can Mist the leaves too Have a great week All the best Melanie and John 🌸
How do I overwinter my cuttings? I’ve just taken them recently, they have rooted. Do I keep in cold Frame? I live in the uk in the north west of England. Great videos btw. Sarah
Hello Sarah - thank you for watching our video 💚 just keep them frost free and then when it warms up in the spring pot them on and plant them out once the risk of frost has gone Have a great week All the best Melanie 🌸
Hello Godfrey - thank you for watching our video and for your comment and we hope to have been of help to you Enjoy the rest of your weekend All the best Melanie 🌸
Hello Arlene - thank you for watching 💚Here is a link to the compost John is using in this video which is John Innes No 2 Potting on Compost - it is an affiliate link but it will not affect the price you pay if you choose to get some amzn.to/46HxRU3 I also put a link here to our video explaining different potting composts which may be of help to you as well th-cam.com/video/EVZk3poUURM/w-d-xo.html Have a great rest of the week All the best Melanie and John 🌸
Hello Angel - thank you for watching our video and taking the time to comment 💚 We are glad to have been of help Have a great week All the best Melanie and John 🌸
Hello Lesley Anne - thank you for watching our video and for your comment 😊 We are so glad to have been of help to you Enjoy the rest of your week and all the best Melanie 🌸
@@JohnHorseyHorticulture that's great many thanks for your quick response. I only found you today have subscribed and will check out more .I was looking for tips on fruit bushes and fig growing. I have a large redcurrant, damson, gooseberry, blackberry, blackcurrants, 2 gojiberry, strawberries ,3 apple trees ,cherry trees 1 fruiting and 6 wild with tiny bitter cherries .so I'm hoping to find something of value in your videos .Really enjoyed the one I watched.
@@felicitywoodruffe4087 Hi Felicity - thank you for your kind words and you have a great mix of fruit trees: please feel free to ask any questions you may have. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and Bank Holiday Monday Kindest regards Melanie 🌸
Thank you for the great video....I did find the end rather confusing though as you don't explain what do with them after they 'have rooted in a few months'. I don't have a propogator and I have some cuttings which I took a month or two back. I don't have a green house or a cold frame. So now what do I do with them? Should I get a polytunnel just for cuttings ? Or can I plant them out in the garden. Written 3rd Oct 2021
Hi Susan - thank you for watching and for your comment: If they have rooted you need to grow them on throughout the Winter protected from any frost and excess wet and then plant them outside next Spring - we will be putting up a video on protecting plants throughout Winter shortly All the best 🌸
Hello CJessie007 - thank you for watching our video 💚 The cuttings are 5 separate plants for you but wait until the Spring now before potting them on Have a great week All the best Melanie 🌸
Hello Dean - thank you for watching our video and for your question: the important thing is for the cuttings to be frost-free so by all means keep them in your greenhouse but best to cover them with the plastic bag and keep an eye on them All the best Melanie and John 🌸
Hi Betty - thank you for watching our video and for your question 💚 Yes you can cut them back now to shape as required without ruining your plant Have a great rest of the week All the best Melanie 🌸
Today we share a propagation video for the Autumn with our hardy salvia "Hot Lips" 🙂
Salvia gregii is one of our go-to plants here in Texas, but our nurseries do not typically stock named varieties. ‘Hot Lips’ is the first thing we planted at our first home 38 yrs ago. Now I want more ‘Moonlight’ a beautiful, full-flowering variety which can be hard to find. So I will propogate my own in these last of the warm fall days! Thank you for the tutorial.
Hello Carolyn - thank you for watching and for your comment - so interesting to us that you are in Texas. "Moonlight" sounds beautiful. May we wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year All the best 🌸
Lovely job, I do love this plant.
The one in my parents garden is massive!
I took cuttings from it around 3 years ago and they are really big and healthy.
Brilliant stuff👍🏻
Hello AJ Dexter - thank you for watching and agreed they are lovely plants 😊 Have a great week All the best 🌸
Love this hearty plant! It was a fraction of it’s eventual size(huge) when I first planted it. Trimmed and planted my cuttings to winter inside. Will plant in several spots in my pollinator garden this coming spring. Thank you for the great tips!❤️
Hello @j.durham1993 Thank you for watching and your garden sounds spectacular 💚 Have a great rest of the week All the best Melanie and John 🌸
Not just a great video - but a smashing course in horticulture. I'm really enjoying all your videos as I'm currently doing the online RHS Level 2 course in horticulture, and these are an excellent way of actually seeing an expert doing what I'm trying to visualise! You also both have an easy teaching style which makes things look so much easier to do, and gives me more confidence to actually go and do it. Thanks again for your time and effort - although it comes across that you both love doing it anyway. Cheers
Hi Andrew - thank you for watching our videos and for supporting our channel: we initially started the videos as an aid to our students so it’s great to hear your feedback. Our best wishes to you in your studies and also wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas 🎄- in the meantime keep safe and happy 🌸
Thanks for a great video. Brilliant idea showing the pictures at the side of what they should look like. I’ll get mine done this weekend.
Thank you for your lovely message - we set up the channel initially as an aid for our students and it’s great to think we are on the right track - thing to remember is keep your cuttings warm at the base for this time of year All the best 🌸
Thank you so much for sharing this information one of the branches fell off mine during a storm and I didn’t want all the growth to go to waste. I will definitely be trying this out!
Hi Celeste - thank you for watching our video and your cuttings should take pretty well Enjoy the rest of your week All the best 🌸
Thanks so much, I will try this as I only have one hot lips Salvia and would love to try my hand at propogating it! Mine attracts loads of hummingbirds and I love the spicy scent and its long flowering season.
Hello Mary Ann - thank you for watching and it sounds heavenly where you are Hot Lips is so pretty in the garden and I am sure you will have great success propagating it Have a good week All the best 🌸
Thanks!, great video, I'm mad about salvia's, I have 9 of them, so it's great to know that I can take cuttings from them
Hello Steven - thank you for watching and your cuttings should do very well All the best 🌸
hello greetings to you from France,thanks for this very nice informative video.
Hello to you in France - thank you for watching our video and for your comment: we are glad to be of help! All the best Melanie 🌸
Excellent video thankyou, may I ask “when do the plants go out in the spring”? thankyou in advance
Hello @paulmaine thank you for watching our video and for your very kind comment 💚 to be in the safe side out the plants out in spring after any chance of frost has gone Have a great week All the best Melanie and John 🌸
Sorry Paul - put the plants out!
Thank you for these wonderfully instructive videos. So useful.
Hello Sarah - thank you for watching our video and for your interest 💚 Have a great rest of the week All the best Melanie and John 🌸
Thanks so much for this. I propogated a few three days ago. The leaves are starting to wilt and im a bit worried... i never let the soil look dry so maybe i should cover it with a bag and only water it once a day?
Hello suji G - thank you for watching 💚 Yes cover with a bag and keep the compost as dry as you can Mist the leaves too Have a great week All the best Melanie and John 🌸
How do I overwinter my cuttings? I’ve just taken them recently, they have rooted. Do I keep in cold Frame? I live in the uk in the north west of England. Great videos btw. Sarah
Hello Sarah - thank you for watching our video 💚 just keep them frost free and then when it warms up in the spring pot them on and plant them out once the risk of frost has gone Have a great week All the best Melanie 🌸
Very well explained with good detail thank you.
Hello Godfrey - thank you for watching our video and for your comment and we hope to have been of help to you Enjoy the rest of your weekend All the best Melanie 🌸
What is your compost .?
Hello Arlene - thank you for watching 💚Here is a link to the compost John is using in this video which is John Innes No 2 Potting on Compost - it is an affiliate link but it will not affect the price you pay if you choose to get some amzn.to/46HxRU3 I also put a link here to our video explaining different potting composts which may be of help to you as well th-cam.com/video/EVZk3poUURM/w-d-xo.html Have a great rest of the week All the best Melanie and John 🌸
Lovely John. I love salvias
Hello @nikkik3263 - thank you for watching and for commenting 💚 Have a great rest of the week All the best Melanie and John 🌸
Thanks for sharing this!
Hello Angel - thank you for watching our video and taking the time to comment 💚 We are glad to have been of help Have a great week All the best Melanie and John 🌸
Very useful video thank you
Hello Deborah - thank you for watching All the best 🌸
Thankyou for nyour help much appreciated
Hello Lesley Anne - thank you for watching our video and for your comment 😊 We are so glad to have been of help to you Enjoy the rest of your week and all the best Melanie 🌸
Sorry can you help please I didn't catch at what time of year you can strike cuttings ?
Hi Felicity - thank you for watching If you have suitable cuttings you can strike them all through the growing season All the best 🌸
@@JohnHorseyHorticulture that's great many thanks for your quick response. I only found you today have subscribed and will check out more .I was looking for tips on fruit bushes and fig growing. I have a large redcurrant, damson, gooseberry, blackberry, blackcurrants, 2 gojiberry, strawberries ,3 apple trees ,cherry trees 1 fruiting and 6 wild with tiny bitter cherries .so I'm hoping to find something of value in your videos .Really enjoyed the one I watched.
@@felicitywoodruffe4087 Hi Felicity - thank you for your kind words and you have a great mix of fruit trees: please feel free to ask any questions you may have. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and Bank Holiday Monday Kindest regards Melanie 🌸
Thank you for the great video....I did find the end rather confusing though as you don't explain what do with them after they 'have rooted in a few months'. I don't have a propogator and I have some cuttings which I took a month or two back. I don't have a green house or a cold frame. So now what do I do with them?
Should I get a polytunnel just for cuttings ? Or can I plant them out in the garden. Written 3rd Oct 2021
Hi Susan - thank you for watching and for your comment: If they have rooted you need to grow them on throughout the Winter protected from any frost and excess wet and then plant them outside next Spring - we will be putting up a video on protecting plants throughout Winter shortly All the best 🌸
Do you use builders sand or is it sharp sand in your mix
@@vac91 Hello @vac91 Thank you for watching 💚use sharp sand as builders’ sand is useless Have a great weekend All the best Melanie and John 🌸
Do you separate the 5 cuttings in the pot once they have rooted, or will this just be 1 plant?
Hello CJessie007 - thank you for watching our video 💚 The cuttings are 5 separate plants for you but wait until the Spring now before potting them on Have a great week All the best Melanie 🌸
Thank you so much ❤️
Can I keep over winter in my greenhouse...
Hello Dean - thank you for watching our video and for your question: the important thing is for the cuttings to be frost-free so by all means keep them in your greenhouse but best to cover them with the plastic bag and keep an eye on them All the best Melanie and John 🌸
Thanks John
Would I be able to thin my hotlips as they are over taking my other plants or would it ruin the hotlips
Hi Betty - thank you for watching our video and for your question 💚 Yes you can cut them back now to shape as required without ruining your plant Have a great rest of the week All the best Melanie 🌸
@@JohnHorseyHorticulture thank you
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Just what I needed! Thanks. XOjennyinseattle
Hello Jennyinseattle - thank you for watching our video and very glad that we could be of help Enjoy the rest of your week All the best 🌸