Salvia roemeriana Hot Trumpets

Description
Eye catching variety, displaying small, deep green foliage with several branching flowerstems, carrying many intense scarlet flowers. The contrasting, neat foliage also has a nice spicy aroma. Truly a real charmer that gives it’s shining performance for a long time. Hot Trumpets is compact, very early to flower and builds into a neat and uniform,richflowering product, both for small and larger containers.

-Eye catching red flowers, in abundance
-Compact and well branched planthabit
-First year flowering tender perennial
-Great garden performance
-Long-flowering season

General
-family: Lamiaceae
-colour: scarlet
-height : 20 – 25cm/8-10"
-life cycle: tender perennial
-seedcount: 400-600 seeds per gram
-garden environment: half shade, well drained
-hardiness zone: 7 - 10

Sowing instruction
-method: 3 – 4 seeds per plug
-plug/tray size: tray 264
-temperature: 20oC/68°F
-germination time: 3 weeks
-germination remarks: cover seeds lightly

Growing on
-potsize: 10,5 to 15cm/4-6"
-sowing to potting: 6 – 7 weeks
-planting to flowering: 12 – 15 weeks
-sowing schedule: sow February till June for sales May till August
-growing temperature: 16 - 18oC(60-64°F)
-soil requirements: well drained
-irrigation: evenly moist, not too wet
-plantshape: can be influenced by using 2gr/liter Alar,or by pinching at the three leafpairs stage. This elongates the cultural period with approx 14 days.