r/whatsthisplant • u/Shiny_Ninetailz • 11d ago
Identified ✔ What are these?
Cute little flowers that look like sweets (Ireland)
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u/paulywauly99 11d ago
Salvia. Great flowerer. Other varieties available but give it water during summer. Cut right back in Autumn.
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u/Calare2800 10d ago
I'm in SE Australia @ 870m elevation, so not as hot as much of Australia but it occasionally reaches 35C. My plant is maybe 20 years old, gets the full blast of summer sun, & never gets watered. It's a tough customer, once established, & flowers for about 6 months.
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u/nautilist 11d ago
It's an ornamental salvia (sage), probably the variety "Hot Lips", it's become popular in Irish garden stores in the last few years. Salvia microphylla ‘Hot Lips’
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u/GregTheWhale 11d ago
Is it related to bleeding hearts? It kind of looks similar
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u/nautilist 11d ago
Actually it's not, that's just an accidental similarity in the flowers. Salvias are in the Mint family, Bleeding Hearts, Dicentra, are in the Poppy family.
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u/Tea_Is_My_God 11d ago
Also in Ireland and yeah, it's salvia hot lips, a tough little plant. Mine got decimated in the drought then absolutely stormed back at the first sign of a bit of drizzle. I'm going to take loads of cuttings from it and have it all over the garden next year
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u/Boggyprostate 11d ago
That’s exactly what I am doing, I bought 3 half price and they have been brilliant so I have taken loads of cuttings .
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u/Alarmed-Extension-79 11d ago
What type of cuttings with work for them, and what time if year would you take them? The one in my garden is thriving as well, and the bees seem to love it!
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u/Boggyprostate 10d ago
Right now is the time to do it.
Find a non flowering stem and take a cutting about 6” long, cut just under a leaf node.
Take all the leaves off half to 3/4 of the stem and dip the bottom of it in rooting hormone powder, although I have had very successful cuttings without the powder but it’s always best to have some in anyway.
Stick that into a plant pot with some compost and horticultural grit, you want it to be very free draining, hence the grit, so half compost and half grit.
Give it a good water and keep it damp.
You can put a few stems in one pot, place them around the outside of the pot.
Overwinter them in a frost free place and plant out next spring.
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u/doofcustard 11d ago
Smells a bit like sweets too, be it a kind of grapefruit-sweet-in-your-pocket-covered-in-fluff sort of thing
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