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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Following a decade living in Portland, Ore., “I just want it to feel like Southern California,” he says as he grazes a palm over a salvia plant, releasing its aroma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
A newly planted bed, the Exotic Plant Garden, blends brunnera, tall blue salvia and hardy schefflera.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2021
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
Let me admire,— Ere yet the sickle of the coming cold Has mown them down,—their beauties manifold:— How like to spurts of fire That scarlet salvia lifts its blooms, which heap Yon space of sunlight.
From One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue by Julius Madison Cawein
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
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 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 Marie Conway Oemler
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