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Salvia
salviakeeper

hybridizing california native salvias

16 years ago

After collecting and planting CA natives, especially salvias, as mother nature would have it, they have been hybridizing and some of the results are fun and interesting, especially when they sport 4+ species in their background. The latest to flower is from a seedling found under S. brandegei 'Pacific Blue" (probably brandegei x munzii according to most) and an S. apiana x mellifera that is grown from a cutting found out on a mountain side. This plant is now flowering at 3 years old.

Also anxiously awaiting flowers from a S. dorrii hybrid purchased at a nursery that appears to have hybridized with a neighboring leucophylla 'Figueroa Mtn' which is an enormous old specimen 6'x 18'.

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