How to EASILY Propagate Pineapple Sage! (Salvia elegans)
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- Опубликовано: 22 окт 2024
- Pineapple sage is a beautiful tender perennial in the garden. It is excellent for attracting pollinators and has edible leaves that have a pineapple fragrance. Pineapple sage can propagate very easily from cuttings. It grows best in zone 8-11 but sometimes will come back in zone 7 - but don't count on it! To preserve it for next year I decided to take some cuttings. In this video you can see what I did and how they rooted!
I have done this many years. The first one lived for three years outside. I covered it with leaves. We eat it in salads. Love your videos. I have been gardening since 1944. It is a only thing I can still do even in a wheelchair. Keep up your good work. It makes my day.
Still alive?
Thank you, very informative! A volunteer started in huge pot I had outside in full sun. I let it grow not knowing what it was. Took it in over winter & now in October I have gorgeous red blossoms outside, taking it back in to winter over again. So glad I saved it…beautiful!! I am in MD so winters can get cold.
I have a pineapple sage on my balcony here in Switzerland and have never wrapped it up in our subzero winters but somehow it has survived for several years while the normal sage hasn't 😅
The flowers are really lovely and I am here because my cleaner always looks at mine longingly, so I want to propagate one for her. 🤗
My dog broke my pineapple sage plants I recently planted (chasing squirrels 🙄). I noticed little root stubs at the bottom of the broken branches so I stuck them in a glass of water a couple of days ago and they seem to be doing fine. But I bet if I stick them in some dirt they'll do even better! Thanks for this video. I wasn't sure I could save them. The hummingbirds love them!
I swear I got my Pineapple Sage from you in the pouring rain at the Middle Tennessee Plant Swap! Or I'm just loosing my ability to remember faces and voices lol? Either way, it's a wonderful plant ❤️ I'm so excited to propagate for our North Alabama Gardening Group Swap in the Fall and also Spring. If it was you, I hope to see you again! If not, thanks so much for the video 😘
You may have but it's been several years since I've been able to make it to that swap! It's a good one.
Did you use root power ? I bought some just recently, may try this too.
Thanks for sharing.
I'm in zone 7B New Mexico
I really enjoy this plant but never managed to get it through the Winter... I had fungus knats ugh...
I'm going to try again this year...
Thanks for your video! I’m planning to propagate my pineapple sage. If you plant cuttings directly in the dirt, does it have to be a specific kind of soil? I’m hoping to plant my new cuttings in the same barrel where my current plant is
So do you just cut off parts from the tops of the plant stems?
Stem tips work great but you can take other material from the stem as well.
Excellent. In your opinion, can rooting hormone actually ever be disadventageous for particular cuttings? I always use it, but I was interested to hear you didn't. Thanks. 🙂
I don't think it would be disadvantageous at all. Sometimes though some plants just don't need it. You can save the rooting hormone for other plants.
@@Growingthehomegarden Okay. Thankyou. I was hoping you'd say that. I've taken a few cuttings this afternoon. They're a little woody, but we'll see. It really is a beauty amongst Salvias. Thanks again.
Thanks for sharing
You're welcome, thank you for watching!
Are these deer resistant!!!
Many salvia plants do tend to be deer resistant. I've not noticed deer ever graze on ours but I don't plant a lot of pineapple sage. Other salvias they seem to leave alone.