{"id":24,"date":"2014-06-04T17:44:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T17:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.welsfordroad.com\/Gardening\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2019-06-29T16:51:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T16:51:38","slug":"salvia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.welsfordroad.com\/Gardening\/?page_id=24","title":{"rendered":"Salvia &#8216;May Night&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>History: <\/strong>There were four of these plants, but there are only three now. (I think the mailman tromped one into the ground during the winter of 2012-13. It never came up that spring.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Care:<\/strong> I tend to cut these back in the fall when they die off a bit, but that&#8217;s about all that&#8217;s been done with them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">2014 &#8212; All three of these were up and blooming by Memorial Day. They&#8217;re very bushy; might consider thinning them or trimming them to keep them from falling out so much.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">2016 &#8212; Going to try to &#8220;deadhead&#8221; the flowering stalks to promote a second bloom.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Dead-Head Salvia (Meadow Sage)\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W-S6OvKp8ik?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Better Homes &amp; Gardens: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhg.com\/gardening\/plant-dictionary\/annual\/salvia\/\">http:\/\/www.bhg.com\/gardening\/plant-dictionary\/annual\/salvia\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Garden Continuum | How to Deadhead Salvia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegardencontinuum.com\/blog\/how-to-deadhead-salvia\">https:\/\/www.thegardencontinuum.com\/blog\/how-to-deadhead-salvia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Trusty Gardener&#8217;s Blog | Deadheading: <a href=\"http:\/\/thetrustygardener.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/10\/deadheading\/\">http:\/\/thetrustygardener.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/10\/deadheading\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History: There were four of these plants, but there are only three now. (I think the mailman tromped one into the ground during the winter of 2012-13. It never came up that spring.) Care: I tend to cut these back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":35,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welsfordroad.com\/Gardening\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welsfordroad.com\/Gardening\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welsfordroad.com\/Gardening\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welsfordroad.com\/Gardening\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welsfordroad.com\/Gardening\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.welsfordroad.com\/Gardening\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/www.welsfordroad.com\/Gardening\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/210"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welsfordroad.com\/Gardening\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welsfordroad.com\/Gardening\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}