How To Collect Salvia and Texas Sage Flower Seeds!

Salvia and Texas Sage, two very beautiful, unique and outstanding flowering plants that will truly show out in anyone’s flower garden but how do the flowers produce their seeds?

Salvia and Texas Sage are both alike when it comes to harvesting their flowers. After the flower blooms, the stalks will drop their petals but will keep the bloom of the flower on. This is where the seeds will be at is where the petals of the Salvia fell off the plant and inside the trumpet shaped flower bloom, there will be little, tiny black and brown seeds.

The easiest way that I have found to collect the seeds is by cutting the dead stems off of the plant and place them in a brown paper bag (Tip, only use paper bags as the stems and parts of the plants will mold in a plastic bag).

After cutting the dead Salvia or Texas Sage stems off and placing them into the bag, bring them to a place where you can save the seeds and take the bag and begin shaking it to release the seeds inside the flower blooms. Use can either drain the seeds out of the bag through the top being careful not to dump the cuttings out of the bag or you can cut a small cut in the bottom of the paper bag and drain them out that way. You may still have some parts of the plants come out with the seeds, but you can take a strainer and separate the seeds from the parts of the flowers.

I also recommend to never throw out the stems that you collected or any parts that may have seeds as some may still contain seeds inside.