I've recently put in a patio tree called Silverado Sage. It's been putting out new leaves and blooming, but noticed that most of the silvery leaves have yellow spots. We've recently had heavy rains. Is it the wet causing this? Gardengater
Too much water. It is a drought-tolerant plant that only requires regular watering when it is getting established after that it doesn't like water very much at all. Make sure the pot has adequate drainage and when it is raining for days at a time, move it to a dryer spot.
It's in the ground, Toni. Will it survive? I've removed mulch to 2"away from the trunk. I may have to pot it again. What do you think? Gardengater
When you called it a patio tree, I figured you had it in a pot on the patio. Was it sold as a patio tree? The Silverado Sage is a cultivar of the Texas Sage and they are both mounding shrubs...Texas Sage reaching 6'-8' tall and wide, the Silverado is a dwarf that grows to a 4'x4' mound but can be kept lower in height. This may be a case of it being out of it's native habitat where it is used to high temps and very little rain. If you don't normally get buckets and buckets of rain thru the year, it might not like it but could adjust if there are periods of hot and dry in between. If heavy rain is normal for you then you might need to pot it so the soil will dry out quicker.
It's a small tree I bought in a local nursery. It lacked planting instructions. We get hot, but always humid here on the coast. Gardengater
The humidity is not going to be a problem, they grow around me and we usually pretty humid. It's an over abundance of rain that it doesn't like. Strange that they shaped it into tree form, that's not it's natural growth habit. Guess they figured they could sell more as trees than shrubs.
