Salvia - what is this flower?

How pleasant it is to walk around in the city garden in the summer! And it is even better to sit on a bench under a shady tree, admiring the flowering flower beds, the palette of which sometimes amazes imagination. And now, after watching the beauty of the creation of the landscape designer's hands, we return home with the firm intention of creating something similar on our site, and maybe even better. And if you have a question about what colors to decorate your front garden, then pay attention to salvia.

Getting acquainted with the plant

So, salvia - what kind of flower is this?   This type of ornamental plants is very widely used in the design of urban flower gardens. This article will tell you how to grow on your site such a beautiful flower, like salvia. That this is a cultivated kind of sage, know a few, but for sure you have often admired this representative of the flora. Genus salvia from Brazil, where it is a perennial plant, but in our frosty climate this flower is planted as an annual. Coloring this plant has a great variety, and some varieties and leaves are variegated, which makes it particularly decorative. Florists have a very popular flower of salvia: red, scarlet, bicolour, purple, white - they all enjoy the special love of specialists. Inflorescences can be dried for winter bouquets. Perhaps, the salvia of the "Blue Queen", as well as such varieties as "Pink Queen" and "Salvia shining", are most suitable as curb colors. It is often used as a border of flower beds near monuments and monuments. Such here it is indispensable - salvia. What is a flower that will please its kind, those who from year to year "selit" it on their flower beds know.

Salvia: growing and grooming

This plant does not cause much trouble when leaving. The only thing that you need to pay attention to - the conditions of growing a flower should be tried as close as possible to the conditions of the natural growth of the plant. Salvia does not like strongly moistened, stagnant soils. For normal growth and lush flowering, take care of good drainage. Soil is better mixed with sand. The flower should be periodically fertilized, but do not get carried away. In heavily fertilized soil, the plant will be well groomed, but will not give abundant flowering. Reproduction of salvia can be carried out in several ways: cuttings, seeds and air layers. If you decide to grow salvia from seeds, then they should be sown in late February or early March in a pot. The grown up plant is pricked for better tillering. Plant flowers on "permanent residence" in the middle-end of May. Varieties that are resistant to cold and drought can be sifted directly into the open ground. For reproduction by cuttings, it is necessary to transplant the flower into a pot before frosts and bring it to a warm, sunny place. For the mother liquor choose lush and undersized specimens. In February, the flower is divided into cuttings and placed in separate pots (preferably peat) for rooting. In early June, the strongest seedlings are planted on the flower beds.

Salvia's favorite

What is this beautiful and unpretentious flower, you learned from this article. Try to decorate your home with these flowers, and for sure, they will become your favorites for many years. Thanks to their bright colors, you will be able to show your designer talent to the fullest.