Hot Lip Salvia reverted to solid reds and whites
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SALVIA Hot Lips Sage Bicolor Wt/Red - salvia microphylla - Wanted
Comments (6)Our local "Home Depot" has Hot Lips. I bought mine in very early spring, sometime in March, and it's still blooming today! The only thing, it has not set one seed pod and I've probably had 1000 blooms. I would advise buying one also, I'm not sure if it is propagated by seed. It was in a gallon pot, very nice size plant and only cost $5.96. It is about 4 times bigger now, so it's a good investment. I, too am going to try some cuttings. Good luck on your search and if you do find seeds, please post that you did so I'll know that they do set seeds. May God bless you with his loving Grace, Mona...See MoreHot Lips
Comments (9)True Salvia microphylla `Hot Lips' has pure red flowers with a white zone that widens out from the middle to the outer edges along the axis of the flower. Red is the dominant color during the cooler part of the season and when fertilizer is applied. The hotter, drier, and leaner the environment, the wider the central white zone becomes. You can reverse the trend to white by repotting the plant in soil with slow release fertilizer. There can be variations on color even on one spike. If there is a pink variant, there still should be clear zones of white and pink. Any pink form with flowers that remain pink under any conditions is definitely not Hot Lips....See MoreHot Lips Salvia
Comments (10)We get an occasional day down to 0F, but generally not a sustained period of time down to zero, in Oklahoma anyway. Generally, the lowest temp we get is down to 15F, and even that is for short periods of time - maybe 2 to 3 days. Sustained freezing temps would be what I'd worry about, and in your zone that is probably the norm. At those temps, the roots would freeze, and the plant would most likely die. Our soil rarely freezes in Oklahoma, but there are rare exceptions to that rule, and it depends on what kind of winter protection you provide. Last winter we had an abnormally cold winter, and several of my borderline zone 7 plants did not come back, e.g., Lantana 'Miss Huff', and I experienced significant die back on my Passiflora 'Lavendar Lady' (it did come back very, very late - July - in a different spot). Also, with Salvias that like drier, well-drained soil. the problem in your zone would probably also include freezing cold, wet roots. Our zone 7 is considered a "temperate" zone. Meaning, our winters generally don't get cold enough that the soil freezes, and sometimes we can "push" tender plants hardy only to zone 8 with winter protection. I have heard of some folks in colder zones that are able to winter over zone 7 plants by heavy, heavy mulching. But these people were in zones 5 to 6. In 3 to 4, I just doubt that it can be done, unless you experience an extremely mild winter. It's all kind of "iffy". My zone 7 Salvias would probably not have survived last year's winter due to the cold, wet conditions. Wet cold means death for a lot of borderline, temperate plants. IMHO, I would definitely move 'Hot Lips' indoors for the winter. Susan...See MoreMy savlia Greggi red turned out to be Hot Lips...
Comments (5)I have had 'Hot Lips' in my garden going on 5 years. It has developed into a sizable shrub about 4 feet across and nearly as tall although I do prune it back pretty hard each spring. I do live in a relatively mild beachside climate but we are exposed to the occasional Arctic blast once or twice each winter. It hit the low 20's for a few days last November with no ill effect on the salvia. Hot Lips starts out with pure red flowers, so easy to see how the OP was misled. Then the bicolor flowers appear for most of the summer, becoming pure white flowers in late season. The hummingbirds don't seem to care what color the flowers are - they continue to visit it daily until it stops flowering in late October....See More- 22 days ago
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