My Victoria blue salvia is beautiful what about pruning or taking cuttings from it?
Wait until you see new growth. Use the asparagus rule to trim salvias. Bending the stem until it snaps (towards the outer end) will reveal the approximate area where the transition of the woody growth to new green growth is. This is also the point where cuttings are taken. Treat shrubby woody-stemmed sages like greggii and microphyllas that form twiggy, woody growth like roses. Definitely do not cut these to the ground. Cutting to the ground is only good for those salvias that form short stolons underground and send up new shoots, like leucantha, some microphyllas, guaranitica, and others. If the plant was rooted and set into the ground with no nodes beneath the soil line, it will not send up shoots in any case. You can often tell this has happened when there is a thick trunk coming from the soil, and the first node has a multitude of stems coming from it. Cut that off, and you have a dead plant. Questions about cutting back salvia greggii: Re-blooming salvias, such as salvia greggii s
