What is eating my salvias?
Garden snails and slugs (terrestrial members of the Mollusk family) find Salvia tasty and can seriously them overnight. They also hide under boards, rocks, and leaves, so keep such debris out of the garden. Check your plants overnight or early in the morning, and especially after a rain or watering your salvia.
Do critters eat salvia?
Wild animals are likely to find young plants particularly tasty. Although well-established Salvias put up with nibbling, it would be a big problem for plants getting established. Placing a chicken-wire enclosure around a newly planted perennial sage isn’t pretty, but you can remove as the sage matures.
Do rabbits eat salvias?
Salvia. Attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies, salvia is not usually eaten by deer or rabbits, probably because of its scent. Give salvias full sun to light shade, in garden spots with average, well-drained soil.
What is eating my flowers at night?
There’s a good chance earwigs are eating your plants. They feed at night and hide during the day in shady, moist areas under plants, flowerpots or mulch. Since they chew holes in both leaves and petals, the plants have a ragged look. To discourage them, reduce watering and eliminate thick mulches.
Do slugs like salvias?
Finally, in the vegetable garden some highly aromatic and/or bitter herbs seem to somehow manage to go unscathed. This may be because these plants, which likely evolved to deter a range of pests, also work against slugs. Top of my list would be salvias (both the herb types and the ornamental bedding types).
Are salvias prone to slugs?
Similarly safe are many flowering plants with bristly or woolly leaves, among them Alchemilla, Geum, Heuchera, Papaver orientale, Pulmonaria, Salvia argentea and Verbascum varieties. Not so the plants here-these can slug it out with the worst of them, Spanish marauders included.
Do slugs eat salvias?
Do Salvias spread?
While we both prefer perennial salvias to annual varieties, two cultivars of Salvia coccinea, ‘Coral Nymph’ and ‘Lady in Red,’ share the award for “Best Annual” salvias. Because this salvia tends to spread and make itself comfortable in the garden, it is easy to divide and share or replant in other areas of the garden.
Are Salvias prone to slugs and snails?
Do salvias spread?
Do salvias come back every year?
Rockin’ and Unplugged salvias are generally considered to be annuals since they are expected to overwinter only in warm climates. People typically plant them in spring, compost them in late fall, and replant the following spring. Plant them once and they will return every year.
Do salvias like sun or shade?
Most salvias prefer full sun, but there are a few types that will do well in filtered shade.
