What kind of salvia was it?
Most salvias need fairly warm temps to germinate and should be surface sown.

They are salvia farinacea victoria. Are you saying that I cannot winter sow salvia? I did check some list for winter sowing, and salvia was on it.

There are lots of different salvias/sages. Some are more tropical and frost tender, others are perennial in cool climates. I have wintersown salvia farinacea several times and it did well even though it is not cold hardy here. It has also self sown for me as well. One year when we had a very mild winter and good snow cover, some of them did overwinter. Most years it acts like an annual though and doesn't bloom until the early fall if I recall.

Your seeds should be ok as long as too many of them did not completely wash out of the containers. Just don't ever bring wintersown containers back indoors for long so that the warm temps trigger germination. Being in standing water and ice for a short time should not hurt them much I would think when they are still dormant.

Sometimes outside with the right weather conditions the containers will get frozen to the ground with thick ice and then it will rain with no where for the water to drain out. If the water gets high enough it could wash the seeds out of the container. To prevent that I have started always adding an extra drainage hole a few inches above the ground but below the level of the potting mix on the sides of my containers.

Thanks, Molanic. That is a great tip about making some holes above the soil line. I will do that with my current plantings and all future ones. Janet

I don't think you killed your seeds. I have a little. Will gladly send you some. Send me an E-mail.

ditto what molanic says.

And if you have never had salvia Victoria before, I guaranteee you will love it. This is one flower I always wintersow, because I don't want to be without it.

Dee

Dee, how would you describe the color of salvia Victoria? Janet

Ooh, that's kind of a hard one. It's one of those plants which some people call blue and others purple - and I believe the full name IS Victoria Blue. I think I would call it a deep blue - which probably does not help you at all, lol. I love to put it in bouquets with dark, deep pinks and with apricots.

It's just such a little workhorse of a plant. Looks great in the beds, very very useful for bouquets, long-lasting, and I have had it overwinter for me here in zone 6 as well. As I said, it's one of my favorite annuals. Sadly, I lost all my photos when my computer crashed last year. Had quite of few of Victoria in the vase and in the garden, but sorry, none to share now!

I hope you will enjoy yours!
Dee

Thanks, Dee. That is exactly the color I was hoping for. The picture was a deep blue, but you never know from those pics. The deep color is what I need for a neighborhood planting I am doing. Janet

You're welcome, Janet. Hope the color works for you!

Dee