Salvia, my "must have" plant | 13 varieties in backyard pollinator garden | Texas Gulf Coast Zone 9b
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ค. 2024
- Join me to view the 13 different varieties of Salvia we have in our gardens in 2024. A gardening You-Tuber I follow asked the question if you could only have one plant in your gardens, what would it be? For me that would be the wonderful Salvia. There are 100s of varieties that will perform beautifully in the garden. Since I garden for hummingbirds and butterflies, this plant would be my "go to" plant. What would your plant be? (See info below).
Additional hardiness zone information for Salvia in my yard (and all can be grown as annuals):
Chapters:
00:00 - 01:19 - Intro
01:20 - 03:32 - Salvia Amante - zone 7-11
03:33 - 04:42 - Salvia Amistad - zone 8-11
04:43 - 06:04 - Salvia Leucantha (Mexican Bush Sage) - zone 8-10
06:05 - 07:04 - Salvia Leucantha (Mexican Bush Sage "Santa Barbara") - zone 7-11
07:05 - 09:01 - Salvia (Hot Lips Salvia microphylla) - zone 7-9
09:02 - 11:01 - Maraschino Salvia (Bush salvia) - zone 6-10
11:02 - 14:43 - Mystic Spires Blue - zone 7-10
14:44 - 16:27 - Salvia Wendy's Wish - zone 9-11
16:28 - 17:26 - Salvia Love & Wishes - zone 9-11
17:27 - 18:08 - Salvia Ember's Wish - zone 9-10
18:09 - 19:21 - Salvia Nemorosa (Rose Marvel) - zone 4a-9b
19:22 - 21:09 - Henry Duelberg Mealy Cup Sage - zone 7-9
21:10 - 22:30 - Salvia madrensis (Forsythia sage) - zone 7 -11
22:31 - 24:17 - Salvia Farinacea (Victoria Blue) aka Mealycup Sage - zone 8-10
24:18 - 25:44 - Ending
Hi there! I am in central Florida zone 9b and i love to grow salvia in my gardens. I do find in my garden most of the varieties i have like some afternoon shade. Amistad, blue suede shoes, black and bloom, leucantha, rockin fuschia, pineapple sage, and some native salvias that i am not sure the name of but are two toned pinkish coral/white. I may have to get more varieties of salvia as they are so beautiful and are pretty carefree which is nice during our summers when it is just too hot to do much gardening, like Texas I imagine.
They really are pretty carefree, and I love that about salvia. They can stand up to our hot and humid summers, so that is a huge plus. I need to get better about cutting them back in the summers, so hopefully I will do that this year. Both coastal Texas and all of Florida have such long growing seasons. And salvia will bloom for our long growing season! 😊
I seem to live near your area and salvias are my favorite, too! I love that they are so hardy and they bloom so much. They handle all the rain and the heat as well. They don’t seem to be bothered by pests. I have a light pink that someone gave me over 20 years ago that I am constantly pulling out because it comes up all over my yard now.
How did you come through Hurricane Beryl? I hope you are okay and you got minimal damage. We were on vacation and are now cleaning up the tree damage we got.
I agree with you .. salvia really don't have pests. I bet your light pink salvia is gorgeous. That is a color I don't have. I have a neon pink, but not a light pink.
Love salvias. We have a nice stand of black & bloom. Shes a relative of of amante & amistad. They are later returning in my zone 8 garden.
I have not grown black & bloom salvia yet. Have you ever had any issues with it returning in the spring after a cold winter?
I really enjoyed this video thank you for sharing the beauty of Salvia
I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Salvia is my spirit plant... Here in MetroWest MA, those lovely large tropical salvias are, alas, annuals, but they are the most steadfast glories. I have previously potted them in large containers but this year plan to get some inground. Amistad's stunniing purple makes me swoon but my other favorite is Argentine Skies with sky-blue flowers and beautifully fragrant foliage. This year I have seedlings from saved seed and hope to be surrounded by salvias!
I really like the term "spirit plant"! 🥰 Argentine Skies sounded very interesting, so I had to look it up. It is also a large guarinitica type with beautiful flowers. You mentioned the fragrant foliage ... which I love! I am always on the lookout for salvia. 👍😊 Thanks for the suggestion!
Here in Oregon zone 8b I love my salvia. Most garden centers have hot lips. Sometimes I get lucky and come across something different. I would love to have all the ones you grow.
Ah, another salvia lover ... kindred spirits! 😊 Being in zone 8b I'm surprised there aren't more offerings for you at your garden centers.
Beautiful ❤ Great contribution
Thank you so much! 😊
Mystic spire blue salvia ,I didn’t know different varieties 😮
I know ... it is crazy there are over 900 types of salvia!
Your Salvia is gorgeous and I never knew there are so many varieties ! ❤
It is crazy how many different varieties there are. Thanks for watching! 😊
I garden in California zone 10. Salvia's are a MUST for me due to the water restrictions. My most favorite is also Mystic Spires. I have the sister to your hot lips it's called amethyst lips. It's a purple and white one. Got mine from Annie's annuals, it's a shipping plant nursery. You gotta get it!
You are right ... I need to get it! 🤩 I hadn't even heard of Amethyst Lips until this spring! Do you know if it behaves just like Hot Lips? I bet it is gorgeous! 😍
@@ButterfliesNBirds Annie's Annuals has a great salvia selection. They're in the Calif. Bay Area and sell online. Their plants are packaged really well for shipping.
waco, tx zone 8b. salvia does great and spreads. i don't recall which, but have the white mealy sage, blue salvia and some blue and white ones. i tried the little ones with the long tubes. didn't do well. my go to is vinca. super drought and heat tolerant. love the vibrant color. love all my self seeders tho, like black eyed susan, larkspur, sweet alyssum, blanket flower, basil, thai basil, zinnia, celosia and gomphrena.
Very nice list of flowers you have that reseed in your garden! 👍😊
My Henry Duelberg is 5 years old and has been winter hardy through multiple hard freezes here in Houston. It grows at the trunk of a crepe myrtle tree so it tolerates some shade. It has spread to a 3' patch.
I also like Cedar Sage which grows in morning sun then requires shade, such as along the eastern edge of a bed.
That is fantastic to hear this about the Henry Duelberg! What color is the foliage on your cedar sage? Most salvia needs full sun, so it is fun to find varieties that do well in shade or dappled shade. Thanks for sharing! 😊
Cedar Sage has true green foliage with red blooms. Very low growing and freely seeds to act as ground cover. I have excess plants currently if you want to dig. 😊
Thank you for sharing, as I hadn't come across cedar sage before. 😊
Mystic Spires for the win,every time🎉🎉🎉
Mystic Spires is one of my favorites too! 😍
hot lips is my fave. I started some this year from seeds that I saved 2 years ago. This year I am trying black and blue salvia instead of rockin the blues
This is my first year growing Hot Lips and I really like it too! Black and Blue is beautiful. 😍
Im glad TH-cam recommended your videos. Im new to planting flowers, but long time Gardner for vegetable and long time hummingbird lover, so anything thats going to help hummingbirds im 💯% in❤
I'm glad TH-cam recommended my channel too! I never get tired of watching hummingbirds, so creating an inviting environment for them is important to me. I think it is fantastic that a long time veggie gardener likes hummingbirds!
I love salvia, butterfly bushes and pestimone, all draw in the pollinators and betterflys.
All three you mentioned are wonderful! 😊 I don't have penstemon yet, but would like to add it sometime.
Beautiful!
Thank you! 😊
Jackson County here mite I recommend Salvia Bodacios Rhythm & Blues it's another Gauranatica as well as Davids variety Cuphea the video was great...
Thank you for the recommendation! I have not planted Bodacious Rhythm & Blues yet. I do have David Verity Cuphea in the yard ( I have two of them) and I just love this variety of Cigar plant. My hummingbirds and butterflies love Cuphea too!
Thank u for the information, just got me some of the salvia u have last month. Can’t wait😊
Awesome! I hope you like it in your gardens! 😊
After a couple of years of my salvias dying in southwest Texas I finally got them to survive. I got a new one Nuevo Leon, native, and the blue color is beautiful, it’s doing really good. Thank you for introducing me to them 😂 my hummingbirds are happy with them
That is just fantastic! 👍😀 I'm so glad they are doing well for you ... and your native one sounds interesting.
Love, love, love the ‘Rose Marvel’, planted one last year and this year it was a show stopper. I am on the search for more. I too purchased Salvia seeds from Baker’s Creek to see how they do. Wonderful video. Thank you so much. I will save this and re-watch. You have even inspired my husband to help me create a new garden area outside my kitchen window. Must have for me too are the work horses of salvia. The ‘Black and Blue’ in my garden is a #1 Hummer favorite for me here in central NC.
You have made my day with your comment! 😀👍 It is awesome you are going to create a new garden area outside your kitchen window. I absolutely love looking out my kitchen window (or patio sliding glass door) and look out into the garden. You know, I am also really loving Rose Marvel ... I hope it can thrive here.
Great video thank you
Glad you enjoyed it! 😊
I've got the blue salvia farinacea which I love but the bumblebees love this plant. They seem to leave me alone while I'm working in the flower beds but the buzzing around my head does definitely get my attention. I hope they are like the honey bees, you leave them alone and respect them and they leave you alone. Atascocita guy here!
That is a Texas native and the bees really do love it! So far the bees don't bother me either when I work in the garden. I just let them go about their business. It is nice to connect with another Houston area gardener!
So glad I found another Texas gardener. I just got a new salvia list. Thank you. I live in Zone 8, Northeast
Texas near the Red River. Loved your video. Thank you.
I'm glad you found my video too! Is your area more dry or humid during our hot 🔥 Texas summers?
I live in zone 6 and I had a Black and Blue come back one time. Must have reseeded itself.
Zone 6 ... wow, that is great! 👍😊
I agreed, nothing like Salvias. My favorite is Salvia Farinacea because of the amount of pollinators that attract and how fast comes back from a trim. Great video, thanks.
Glad you enjoyed the video. I am appreciating Salvia Farinacea more and more each year. The bees and small butterflies go nuts for it in my garden.
I'm in league city. Love all saliva 💕
Hello neighbor! Isn't salvia just a wonderful plant here?! 😀
I love your garden! I LOVE pineapple sage. You have inspired me to plant a Salvia garden!!!!! My go to is Miss Huff lantana.
Thank you! 😊 If you do plant a salvia garden with pineapple sage, you won't be disappointed! Lantana is wonderful too, and I seem to always want more lantana, but I'm running out of full sun space. lol.😄
@ButterfliesNBirds thank you. Your videos are beautifully done. I'm going to be binge watching today. I just found your channel this morning. I'm in Georgia 8a just south of Atlanta on an acre lot. Happy gardening!
Oh my goodness, you are in my general "neck of the woods" down south here. I'm glad you found my channel too. I really enjoy connecting with other gardeners as it is fun to trade tips and suggest plants.
Elephant ears are my favorite. But I have a hard time starting them as they usually rot.
How do you start them ... from dividing the roots?
the squirrels get mine
Squirrels are a total pain in my yard.
Great video 😁 My favorite is the Black & Bloom Salvia. The blue is such an eye catcher as well as a big hit with the pollinators. Mystic Spires is also a top favorite as it blooms profusely til frost and the bumblebees are on it nonstop.
Thank you! 😊 Black and Bloom is one Salvia I haven't tried yet. I love blue flowers ... so I should to try it. How large does yours get?
You are welcome. Mine is 3-4 ft tall in 5 hrs Sun. It will be blooming soon here in Zone 8b 🌿
It sounds wonderful! 😍
You are certainly the expert on salvia. The only one I had come back is “Sally Fun” salvia I got it at Lowe’s planted it in a couple of pots and it over wintered and came back strong. I’ve got a couple more to add to see how it does again. I’d like to try something that gets tall to grow against a fence. My cardinal climber seeds came up within a week so that’s exciting. I don’t know I have a go to plant. I like bromeliads, collect varieties of bananas, finally got my first bunch last year. For flowers I like the salvia now but love growing mandevilla especially red. My other passion is palms I have 10 different species now
I don't feel like an expert ... but I do like Salvia! 😂 You know, Amistad and Amante grow really tall for me in full sun, so they could work against a fence. Bromeliads, bananas, and palms ... what a nice tropical feeling! I bet it is pretty. I really like mandevilla too, and this is the first year in awhile I don't have one.
What plants are growing behind your Mystic Spire salvia? They look bushy with fennel like leaves. Fantastic background.
They are fennel ... a whole fantastic row of them! 😀
Those are amazing Coleous! I finally found some I like at a nursery. Some of them similiar to some of yours so will be interesting to compare. How is your hand doing, better I hope. My cardinal climbers are coming up fast. Caladiums are slow like yours I think next year I’ll put them on a heating pad. I’m just finishing up adding irrigation system to my back deck. Going to try some of those stakes you did a video on last year. I think they are still available at lowes
Thank you! I hope the new coleus live up to how they are advertised. My hand is doing better ... although I'm still doing tasks one-handed which is an irritation. (Thanks for asking.😊) You are going to LOVE your irrigation system! I now consider my drip irrigation to be essential. And the pot stakes are wonderful. For large containers I use 2 stakes on opposite sides from each other.
IMO the only upside to our Houston area heat is Salvia loves it. My Hotlips Salvia survived our freeze but it doesn't seem to bloom as much as the other Salvias so hopefully you will have better luck. After seeing your Amistad, I tried to find it but nurseries have been out so I am trying the Black and Bloom since it appears to be the same deep purple color.
So true concerning our Houston heat! We'll see what my Hot Lips does this year. So far the one I planted in a large container is blooming well. You know, my bush salvia doesn't bloom very well during the heat of summer either. I hope Hot Lips isn't like that. Amistad Salvia is pretty popular (like Mystic Spires) so it is scooped up pretty quickly at the nurseries that carry it. I have not grown Black and Bloom, but from the wonderful comments I think you have selected a good one! 😊
Annie's Annuals (online seller) has Amistad on sale right now (7/4/24).
I thought Leucantha that was a fall bloomer! My neighbor had one which would always bloom at the end of August. Also, I planted the Duelberg this winter and I like it, the stems are a bit long but it’s blooming quite a bit! I agree with it being a very fast grower
You are correct, Salvia leucantha does its blooming in the late summer and fall. But it will also bloom right away for me in the spring. This is usually a small bloom display. Then it focuses on growth before the fall flowers.
Good morning… Another wonderful video❤️
I have a question about do you fertilize and if so, what brand and how much and how often?
Do you deadhead ?
I’m still very new at this. I have 3 different varieties of salvia, bush sage in the ground and the others in pots. Thanks for the help.❤
These are great questions! 😊 For all of the garden beds I put down compost in the spring. This year I used Happy Frog Soil Conditioner. (Last year I used Cotton Burr compost to help break down my clay soil). I generally don't fertilize the garden beds - I just use compost. When I plant anything I try to remember to put a slow release fertilizer in the planting hole like Plant Tone (organic) or Osmocote Plus (not organic). The containers are different because they lose nutrients with the frequent watering that you have to do. I use Espoma's liquid Bloom! and Espoma's liquid Grow! fertilizers, which are instant release fertilizers (organic). They are more expensive than Miracle Grow Bloom Booster Flower Food, which I will occasionally use. Since I have hibiscus in containers, I also fertilize them with a specific hibiscus fertilizer. Good luck with your Salvia!
I do cut back my salvia .... but I need to do better. I don't deadhead, but you can. It does make for better reblooming. I find that I might deadhead in a container but never in the landscape. lol.
@@ButterfliesNBirds thank you
You bet! Good luck and let me know how things progress for your garden over the summer! 😊
This was so helpful! I've been deciding between Amistad and Rockin' Deep Purple. Being able to visualize how big they are in your yard made me realize I need to go for the more compact one (Rockin,' apparently) for my space.
I'm glad this helped! 😊 In my landscape Amistad and Amante are the largest by far. My neighbor grows Amistad in a container and it doesn't grow like those grown in the landscape. Hers maybe are a couple feet tall. They could overtake other plants in a large container though. I believe both types you mention are guaranitica types of Salvia. I grew Rockin' Fuschia last year and it is smaller than Amistad.
I just bought a guaranitica one called Blue knight. It's a deeper bright blue. I also have a pink and cream two tone like hot lips. Don't know the name as it was in a bunch called assorted. I have the heatwave series which has apricot various pinks, red and whites. Same sort of flowers as hot lips. I have quite a lot actually. Do you get the leucantha velour pink there? I had to cut it back really hard. I didn't realise how big it grows and might have to move it. I have several blues. African sky, azure, bog sage and others I would have to check labels. I really love the bright pinks. Those ones that stop you in your tracks because they are so bright and stunning and also love the sky blue coloured ones. There's another series here called So cool and last week I bought the lilac. I also have the yellow like yours. The place I ordered from online threw in an extra and so I put them together in a big pot. Another pot is in memory of my mum with one called Joan (her name) and Angel wings) around the outside I have Angelica pansies or violas. The last couple of days I have managed to redo some pots and have multi planted salvia in them. Red and white heatwaves with a taller one called magenta magic, pink, lilac with semiatrata ( hope I spelt that one correctly), tangerine, pumpkin(which is supposed to be apricot), glow heatwave and blaze heatwave both are steps in coral sort of colour. I've been shoving them in all around my garden as well as extra for pollinators. I've always had lots of lavender but thought I would extend all my garden and put even more variety in. I couldn't shorten my favourites down to just one plant. I like too many to do that. Lol
You will have to get the kisses and wishes one. It's very pretty too.
I didn't mean to reply here but I was trying to check spelling of the G one and it must have added my comment as a reply. Oopsies. Lol😂
There are so many varieties of Salvia... over 900 I believe. I love peach and coral colors, and those you mentioned in that hue sound so nice. I haven't heard of some you mentioned so I don't know if they are mainly in Australia or if i just don't know about them. 😂 It sounds like you have many varieties of Salvia ... and with the lavendar in your gardens the pollinators must LOVE your place! 👍😀🪻🤩 I know it is fall there now ... do you still have lots of flowers?
No worries ... I replied to your post there. 🥰
Great video. I love seeing your garden. I am trying out a lot of the same saliva you mentioned. I don’t have Amistad or Amante yet. If you had to choose one of those two which would you go with?
Amistad and Amante are the largest salvia in my garden and are truly interchangeable except for the bloom color. In full sun and a well draining bed, they can grow well over 5 feet here. I lost one established Amistad plant last summer during our brutal heat, which surprised me. Hummingbirds, butterflies, native bees, and honey bees go to both equally. It really comes down to your preference of flower color. Amante *might* be a tad sturdier, so if I had to choose just one, it might be that.
I wish I could get most or of the salvia seeds you have
I wish I could start and nurture seeds! (I'm not good at it).
I've had rotten luck with the nemerosas. LOVE the guaranitica. hybrids
The April Nights (purple) nemorosas I had hated our scorching hot summer in 2023 and died. I am trying nemorosas again this summer with Rose Marvel. Butterflies and bees really the nemorosas. I love a lot of the guaraniticas too - as I think Amistad (or Amante) is my favorite salvia. I did have one Amistad, two Hummingbird Falls, and 4 Rockin Fuschia (all guaraniticas) die on me last summer too though. I have drip irrigation, but maybe they didn't get enough water.
I have Plum Crazy , Rockin Blue Suede Shoes , Rockin Fuschia, Black and Bloom and a Leucantha variety. They all are blooming and tall already this year . I’ve had them for a few years now . One thing I don’t understand is sometimes they are easy to grow from cuttings in spring and other years they won’t at all . I always take cutting in early March before they start blooming . It’s a mystery .
You have nice varieties in your garden! What zone are you in?
@@ButterfliesNBirds I’m in 9a near Valdosta, Georgia. It was previously 8b . It seems like every year or so there are new varieties of salvia coming out . They are our favorite flower .
Salvia grow so well for us down in the south! I absolutely love all that Salvia brings to the garden. It seems like I am always on the lookout for new varieties too. Last year I bought Rockin Fuschia and Hummingbird Falls (both guaranitica types) and I lost both during our excessive heat last summer. 🥵 I sure hope we don't have a repeat of last summer's prolonged excessive heat and drought. Thanks for your comment!
I grew the salvia nemerosa rose marvel last year and loved it, however I noticed that during the intense heat of the summer it died back to almost the ground😢. Does it do that for you? I'm in Rockport Texas so we have similar growing conditions. Also I noticed some grower market it as hardy to zone 9 and others only to zone 8
My salvia nemerosa (April Night) did not survive last summer's heat - and they were established. This year with Rose Marvel I have planted it in a different part of my yard. It is still full sun, but I hope it is a better location for it. If it doesn't survive there, I will probably try one last time in a partial sunny location. Thanks for telling me about the zone info.
So incredibly beautiful ! My salvias never come back Im in the DFW area of TX zone 8b I dont understand why
The only salvia that comes back for me is Salvia Leucantha (Mexican sage). I’m in zone 8b GA
One thing you could try is to put leaves or mulch around the base of your salvia plants in the winter. This will protect the root crown. I know it can get pretty windy in the DFW area in spring. Have you seen the plants just sprouting but then get nipped of because of wind? And finally, I would pull up the dead plant in spring and dig around in the soil ... are there grubs/ insects that have eaten the roots? You are in an area where salvia should come back.
What other salvia have you planted that hasn't made it?
Actually my Salvia Hot Lips came back, too. I don’t remember what kind I planted last year but I’m sticking with the Leucantha & Hot Lip & am going to try to find two you had mentioned Salvia Amante & Amistad. I bet I’ll have good luck with them. (I keep everything mulched for the winter. )
@lindylou3519 That is great Hot Lips came back for you too! Amante is rated to zone 7 and Amistad is rated to zone 8. I lost an Amistad in the winter of 22 because I hadn't mulched around it well and we got down in the teens in that winter blast. I learned my lesson! This past winter I put leaves and compost all around the bases of the plants and all made it. (We have had a couple of unusually cold winter blasts the past 2-3 years).
Love your videos I’m in the Houston area , really interested in the yellow salvia that blooms in fall and winter. Been looking on line for seeds or plants any ideas? Thanks
Hi neighbor! I have gotten mine at Enchanted Nursery in Richmond, SW of Houston. Other people in the area have said they have gotten Salvia Madrensis (or also called Forsythia sage) at Joshua's Native plants in Houston. I would call the nursery and ask if they have it, or when they would expect it to come in.
Hi!
I garden here in Katy Tx. I love your salvia garden😍 Where did you get your wish salvias? Thanks🦋
Hi! I got all three "wishes" salvia from Enchanted Gardens in Richmond. They usually have a pretty good selection of salvia. (It is a nice nursery).
Great info. Trying to start with more plants that attracts bees and butterflies.
Does salvia needs to be fertilized for great blooms or just good soil?
If they are planted in the landscape, they just need good soil. Putting a good layer of compost in the spring usually will be enough. I don't fertilize mine in the garden beds.
I wish i had your climate
We have a nice long growing season, but it gets so hot in the summer.
Well plant more trees like albizia or if you wanna go fast paulownia tomentosa and you will get more shade@@ButterfliesNBirds
Our trees currently offer lots of shade, so I'm with you on having trees in the landscape!
When you say cut it back do you mean in the fall or during the growing season?
During the growing season. I don't cut it in the late fall because the stems are hollow and if we get a freeze and there is moisture in the stem from rain, the crown can be damaged and kill the plant. I will cut the old stalks of Salvia in the very early spring.
Id like to see more about species rather than varieties
Good idea - thank you! 😊👍
Do you grow African blue basil it is a pollinator magnet
No, I currently don't grow any basil. How long is the bloom time? 😊
For me in south Florida it blooms everyday year round, it is very easy to propagate from cuttings too. The bees including the solitary native bees are on it everyday.
That sounds wonderful! 😍
You should try it is always cover in pollinators
I just saw this plant in the garden of a neighbor this weekend, and she also highly recommended it!
What about sage? Same class or different?
Hello! All sages are salvias.
There is a Dutch series of Guaranitica salvias named after LAKES. I've tried a few and they have done great!
Thank you - that is good to know! What zone are you in?