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rooting salvia greggii

16 years ago

I planted a salvia greggii "Sierra de San Antonio" late this spring, it seems to have gotten established already and looked to be happy where I put it. This morning while I was watering the new plants in the yard, I dragged the hose over the salvia and broke the stem just above the ground. There are a couple small branches that are coming off of the stem below the break and I took a pair of scissors to try to make a clean cut to the main "trunk". I now have three decent sized branches that I would like to root, either to replace the current plant if it dies or to add to the yard elsewhere. I did the same thing earlier with a smaller piece of Henry Deuhlberg salvia and just put it in water...where it died. Can anyone help me?

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rock_oak_deer
16 years ago
Here's a link to a discussion on this issue at the Salvia forum. I hope this helps.

Yours should come back, I'll be cutting mine back soon anyway when the blooms are spent.

Here is a link that might be useful: Salvia Forum Discussion
freshair2townsquare
16 years ago
I love my 'San Antonio' for the color, but its not terribly hardy.

You may want to consider setting up some stakes or decorative statuary/rocks to protect certain plants from future hose damage.

~ freshair
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equinecpa
16 years ago
I just rooted some salvia greggi a couple of weeks ago when I purchased some and broke a branch on the way home. I chopped it up into 3 pieces, stripped the bottom 1/3 of leaves and stuck it in potting medium with perilite. That was about 3 weeks ago...it looks like I now have 3 little plants!
texazgal
16 years ago
They will also come up from seeds, I have lots of new babies every year.

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