fall salvia , screw botanically as Salvia greggii , is a flower repeated semi - evergreen herb that grows in small shrub form , reaching 3 feet in pinnacle and disperse at maturity . Native to Mexico and Texas , autumn sage is hardy in zone 8 through 11 and expand in rough , well - drain soil . Autumn salvia flowers from spring through to come , most commonly in a inscrutable crimson color but also in white , pink , yellowish , Salmon River and purpleness . It is grown in beds and margin and planted en masse as a attraction for hummingbird bodily function in the garden . While it does not ask veritable pruning to encourage emergence and bloom , autumn sage can be kept to a stiff , neater form with pruning .
Step 1
Prune your autumn salvia twice a year in the late wintertime after all flowering has ceased and again in August to keep the plant life more compact in size .
Step 2
Shear the plant life to just 4 inch above the crown during the winter pruning session . Clear away all of the cuttings to make way for spring growth to emerge .
Step 3
Prune away 1/2 of the works height and mass during the summertime pruning session in August to reduce the size of it of the shrub and create a tight pitcher of young greenish maturation and flowers .
Step 4
Prune away any damage , pathologic or drained branch or foliage throughout the year as needed . spot cuts back to the point of healthy tissue or cut the branch all the direction back to the summit to advance a new branch to be place up .
& When To Prune An Autumn Sage Plant
head entails removing spent flower at the stem or cutting small individual stems at the main leg . Discard into a compost pile or economise for future plantings . Keep an oculus on unexampled growth . Shearing tends to further more exterior development — barricade the sun from the interior growth — and can leave in more dead branch and fewer flower . Choose sometime or dead offshoot to dilute from the joint down to the next sidelong branch or further , depend on how much cutting is needed . Thinning plants take careful precision and is the most prison term - consuming of pruning method . flat before or immediately after the flowering time of year , lop off all the branches of the shrub to its root . The pruning method produces best when done closer to the final efflorescence in wintertime month to guarantee a long period of increment .
