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Salvia ❤ Roses
Sarah Raven
Gardener and author of A Year Full of Flowers
There is a gardeners’ legend that suggests underplanting roses with salvias keeps fungal diseases at bay. I decided to experiment with this in the rose garden, planting compact, shrubby salvias with pungent, aromatic leaves, such as and and the × hybrids. My theory is that salvias have good concentrations of sulphur in their scent profile (squash the leaves and you’ll see what I mean), and that in the heat of the day they
