salvia
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of salvia
1835–45; < New Latin, Latin: sage
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“It is thrilling to hike through the preserve with over 150 native plants and animals. Birds and other pollinators flock to salvia, buckwheat and yarrow. The dramatic silver-leafed Dudleya were blooming gloriously.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
Aside from vegetables, they also grow medicinal herbs, some of which include camomile, salvia, calendula, lavender and epazote.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
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
And the scarlet verbenas, and the larkspurs, And the row of flaming salvia....
From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various
"Things we'd expect to flower into October, like fuchsias and salvias, are still flowering now and show no signs of stopping," Ms Barker said.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2022
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
Williams’ landscape “canvas” is relatively small but lushly filled with 20 varieties of California native plants — salvias, ceanothus, buckwheats, mallows and such perennials as monkey flower and yarrow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 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
The weather is so ideal, and my garden so gorgeous with all those chrysanthemums and salvias and geraniums and roses, that it would be sinful not to take advantage of such conditions.
From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Oemler, Marie Conway
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