Tag Archives: Salvia littae
fall-blooming salvias and where to find some
I’ve been trying to scale the garden down, which means there will be no shed-sized, fall-blooming salvias this year like… Salvia involucrata, Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden, the rosebud sage. Some of the salvias like a bit more moisture than I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged Cornerstone Gardens Sonoma, Fullerton Arboretum salvia sale, Longwood Gardens, Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, Phylica pubescens, Salvia 'Indigo Spires', Salvia 'Waverly', Salvia 'wendy's Wish', Salvia africana-lutea, Salvia cacaliifolia, Salvia canariensis var. candissima, Salvia clevelandii, Salvia elegans 'Golden Delicious, Salvia involucrata, Salvia littae, Salvia macrophylla, Salvia madrensis, Salvia reptans West Texas Form, Salvia sclarea 'Piedmont', Salvia uliginosa, Salvia van houttei, Salvia verticillata 'Purple Rain', Salvia wagneriana
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Bloom Day April 2012
April deserves a thorough Bloom Day post, but if I’m to get this in before midnight it’ll have to be brief. A big change here is that the poppies of Troy, Papaver setigerum, are over sooner than I’d like. I … Continue reading
Posted in Bloom Day, Bulbs, Plant Portraits
Tagged Albuca maxima, Digitalis 'Goldcrest', Dutch iris 'Eye of the Tiger', Geum magellanicum, Lotus jacobaeus, Papaver rupifragum, Papaver setigerum, Pelargonium 'Splendide', Salvia chiapensis, Salvia littae, Salvia macrophylla 'Upright Form, Scrophularia calliantha, Sideritis syriaca, Stipa gigantea, Thunbergia alata, Thunbergia gregorii, Tweedia caerulea
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some quiet plant conversation
I suggest we leave the main table with its overturned wine glasses, scattered pie crumbs, gravy stains and increasingly madcap discussions and gather in an out-of-the-way corner to quietly talk plants. A kind of horticultural digestif. A couple weeks ago … Continue reading
Posted in Bulbs, creatures, plant nurseries, Plant Portraits, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Anthericum saundersiae 'Variegata', Armstrong Nurseries, Aster Frikartii 'Monch', Chlorophytum saundersiae, Echeveria ciliata x nodulosa, Gerbera 'Drakensberg Carmine', Graham Rice, Hayefield, Lilium 'Lankon', Monterey Bay Nursery, Nan Ondra, pollinators, Salvia littae, The TransAtlantic Plantsman
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Bloom Day November 2011
It can’t be November already. But the winter-blooming salvias don’t lie. Rosebud-like blooms are forming on Salvia wagneriana, and the slender wands of Salvia littae from Oaxaca, Mexico are budding up. The latter’s tall, lanky growth habit is very reminiscent … Continue reading
Posted in Bloom Day, Plant Portraits, succulents
Tagged ' Euphorbia 'Diamond Frost, Aechmea recurvata ‘Aztec Gold', Crassula sarmentosa, Hakonechloa macra ‘Emerald Glow’, Linaria maroccana, Passiflora sanguinolenta, Salvia chiapensis, Salvia littae, Salvia madrensis, Salvia wagneriana, Tetrapanax papyriferus, Thunbergia alata, Vriesea gigantea
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