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
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
To attract hummingbirds and butterflies, Hayes introduced bright flowers, like purple salvia, golden honeysuckle vine and fuchsia and mango lilies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2015
The hardy phlox sways to some garments' flow; The salvia there with sudden scarlet streams, Caught from some ribbon of some throat that gleams, Petunia fair, in flounce and furbelow.
From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various
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
The Botanic Garden alone, the oldest in the country, could absorb an entire day, and even in autumn intoxicates with its grasses, dahlias, salvias, English yews and something called “purple bush.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2014
As we go on, our eyes rest upon white salvias, the pretty Deptford pink, wild lavender, several species of broom and ferns in abundance.
From The Roof of France by Matilda Betham-Edwards
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