Pineapple Sage

[Polly1958]

I have had a Pineapple Sage plant for three years, it flowered beautifully the first year then last year it did nothing at all.Same again this year,nothing.It looks very healthy so can anyone tell me why it hasn't flowered?

[mightymouse]

This plant, Salvia elegans, comes from a hot area in Mexico, and will only flower here in a hot summer, which we have not had for the last 2 years. It is Autumn-flowering, when the daylight gets shorter. But lack of heat for the last 2 years has obviously prevented it from maturing. If you can obtain it, try the regular species of Salvia elegans, or the cultivar known as 'Honey Melon'. Both fragrant, and earlier-flowering.

[Polly1958]

Thanks mightymouse,i will look out for a Honey Melon,i have lots of sages but not that one.