How to prune salvias?
Top You may not want to bother removing the flower-bearing stems on many types of salvia that are grown for hummingbirds. These stems simply dry up by themselves and since our annual salvias generally do not produce seeds in great number; this need not be a concern for you. Salvia coccinea does produce seeds on these stems. Some gardeners recommend that flower stems should be removed from plants once the flowers stop looking attractive in order to prevent the plants from producing seeds, which can reduce future blooming. This does not happen with salvia coccinea, which produces both lots of seed and lots of flowers all year long. Once any part of a plant turns brown and brittle it may be removed without harming the plant, since brown and brittle indicates a dead part of the plant. If you want to promote branching in salvias, you can cut off the tip of each stem, which will usually result in two new stem tips being produced from the axils of the last pair of leaves left on the plant. Wh
