gardening blog Pruning & Trimming 3 Different Types of Salvias In Spring or Fall

Salvias are a very popular garden plant. They need pruning but you need to know what type of salvia you have before you do it.
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The 3 types of salvias mentioned in this video are:

#1 The Deciduous Herbaceous Salvias.
#2 The Herbaceous Salvias With Woody Stems.
#3 The Rosette Forming Herbaceous Salvias

I first learned all about perennial salvias in the San Francisco Bay Area where I was a professional gardener for over 15 years. The nursery where I worked in Berkeley sold many different species and varieties of them. This video is all about sharing what I know about pruning (this is the big cutback, not the dead heading you do throughout the season) the two most popular types of perennial salvias which you probably have in your own garden. Plus, I also mention a 3rd type which you may not be familiar with.

I’ll be talking about pruning salvias here in coastal California. You can tweak the process for your climate zone if they’re perennials where you live. There’s a long standing debate of sorts about giving salvias their big pruning in fall vs spring. It’s simply a matter of preference. I go back and forth on this topic but these days am more a proponent of fall/winter pruning. I sometimes find it necessary to do a light “clean up” pruning in early spring too.

We have lots of year round interest in our gardens so that’s why I prefer to do it in mid to late fall. This way the plant looks better over the winter months and growth is nice and fresh earlier on in spring. If you’re in a colder climate, just make sure to prune in the a fall well before the threat of frost and after the last chance of it has passed in spring.

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