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Salvia Amistad

OmoriOmori Posts: 1,660
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Everything I’ve read said the eventual height should be 3.5-4 feet tall.  However I’ve just come across this photo of Monty with his 6 foot tall Amistads 😬 Is it his growing conditions?  Mine will be in full sun, Yorkshire.  6 feet would be way too tall so if this is the norm I may have to rethink where I place it.


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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 9,959
    I have 3 Amistad plants in my Essex garden and they do get to 6-7ft.
    I do manure the soil every year, so they'd be smaller on poorer soils I'd guess
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  • OmoriOmori Posts: 1,660
    I like your signature Pete 😁 My soil has been amended as well.  How wide would you say yours get? 
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 16,523
    Mine to to six feet and each plant about 18 inches wide, but I plant as a triangle of 3.
  • OmoriOmori Posts: 1,660
    18" could actually be ok at that height, perhaps my original plan can be salvaged after all :)
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 9,959
    Mine send out a lot of stems as they've been in the ground for about 5 years now they get to about 3ft wide each.
    If that's too wide, just replace them every couple of years. They're so easy from cuttings and a cutting taken this summer will still produce a 6ft plant the following year
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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • Janie BJanie B Posts: 865
    Mine got very tall and leggy last year, so this year I've been nipping out the buds in the hope that they'll be bushier. I took cuttings for the first time last year, and agree that it was straightforward... the cuttings are all growing nicely in pots now, but all showing flowering buds ...
  • Janie BJanie B Posts: 865


    This is was the height of one of mine (not one of the leggy ones!) last year (sunny, clay). About 3-4ft. I’m hoping to keep it at about that height, but a little bushier...
  • OmoriOmori Posts: 1,660
    Thank you both, I enjoy taking cuttings so that sounds like a good option as well.  I'll pop them in as planned and can adjust as needed, I guess I need to see how they grow in my conditions.  That is lovely Janie, thank you for sharing.
  • Ryan180680Ryan180680 Posts: 189
    Have yours started growing already this year? My newly planted one from last year has a small.bit of growth so far 
  • Janie BJanie B Posts: 865
    Yep, @Ryan180680, I have six plants in a herbaceous bed, and they have all survived and are putting on a lot of growth. I have been pinching them out, and many of them have small buds forming already. 
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