Rewilding My Lot

Scarlet Sage (Salvia coccinea) grow and reseed readily in Central Texas, in a variety of soil and light conditions. The tubular blooms are popular with bees, butteflies, and hummingbirds.

I have both red and pink variants here, and the red ones especially have volunteered in a number of odd places. So when a friend said she could use some, I took the opportunity to dig up a few.

Our last rain here was three weeks ago, so for a couple of days prior to the potting, I watered the plants to moisten the soil.

One target Scarlet Sage had volunteered right underneath a Chile Pequin, and then was partially uprooted in a recent high wind event.

The others that I dug up were growing out of a patch of stones that are near the front porch in an area with heavy rain runoff from the roof (we don’t have gutters).

Here are the plants after potting.

Then I trimmed the bigger ones to about half size to give the roots less to support during recovery.

I wish them well in their new location!