salvia
Americannoun
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salvias
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of salvia
1835–45; < New Latin, Latin: sage
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Blue By You salvia is bursting with bright blue flowers from late spring into fall, when spent flowers are removed.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024
It’s a mostly California native garden, so I get bees and butterflies and it smells like salvia after the rain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
In those areas, the birds can be attracted by planting things such as firebush, firespike, cuphea and salvia.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 14, 2020
His DNA was later found to match salvia on the back of the vestment worn by Canon White on 7 July last year.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2019
How brilliant the salvia was to-day, and what a brave second blossoming that was of the delphinium, its knightly spurs, metallic blue, gleaming in the sun!
From A Bookful of Girls by Anna Fuller
So are cleome, Gomphrena and various salvias, with their tubular flowers that invite hummingbirds to make a pit stop on the way south.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2022
It was a lot of work — they’ve repaired 70 so far — but it preserved a bit of stadium history and the containers look great with succulents and salvias cascading down the sides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
She said she was more concerned about people staying safe than the welfare of her coleus and salvias plants.
From Washington Times ● May 31, 2020
As global temperatures rise, the flowering periods of salvias and other important nectar plants for hummingbirds are shifting earlier in the season, becoming increasingly out of sync with the birds’ foraging demands.
From National Geographic ● Apr. 18, 2018
Everybody has on white cotton gloves, and those entitled to carry speaking trumpets have bouquets in the bells of them, salvias, and golden-rod, and nasturtiums, and marigolds, and all such.
From Back Home by Eugene Wood
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