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Thanks.
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Wendy's Wish got to be at least 3 ft in a container for me. I had it only one year and it did not over winter well in the garage like my other salvias do. I'd grow it again if i could find it!
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You might be able to order a WW plant off the internet. Speaking of hard to find salvias, I propagated a Hot Lips salvia from a cutting late last summer. It's about 1 1/2 feet high now.
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The Hotlips are common here with new colours coming out. I bought a Cranberry last year and a pink the year before that. The are wintering over well enough in the ground. It really is a fave with the hummingbirds.
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Picked my first semi ripe loquat today and ate it.
Cant believe they made it through the winter. One of my neighbors yucca plants is in full bloom too. |
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I also order from Flowers By The Sea. (I’m incorrigible.) |
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This thing is getting very large and it is blooming up a storm. For some reason it's attracting a lot of bees.
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I have fresh passiflora edulis flavicarpa (passion vine) seeds if anyone is interested. They bloom and produce fruit all season.
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The bees go for both my Cuphea too. They’re hilarious; they drill through the blossom at the base to get at the nectar. Same with most of the salvias because they can’t fit their fat selves into the flower.
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[QUOTE=PlainJane;731843]The bees go for both my Cuphea too. They’re hilarious; they drill through the blossom at the base to get at the nectar. Same with most of the salvias because they can’t fit their fat selves into
True, lol.
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I have to wait for the three foxglove plants to finish blooming so that I can put my Wendy's Wish Salvia and my Hot Lips salvia which are now in pots into the ground. I treat the foxgloves every year like annuals, as they do not come back well in my hot and humid zone 9.
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I treat delphiniums the same ... as annuals.
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Morning in the mini-orchard/pollinator garden. Apples, figs, blueberries, pluots, a mulberry and a lemon.
Pollinator plants are arugula, dill, cilantro, hamelia, cerinthe, borage, Abutilon, fire spike, lobelia, African Blue Basil and about 20 types of salvia. |
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Very nice Jane, wish I could grow all those fruits here.
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Everything but the citrus is hardy in your zone, and this all fits into a pretty standard size backyard. You just have to be happy with less grass.
![]() I grew the fruit trees on from whips for a year while saving and planning. The garden is now in its 2nd full year. Some plants like agastache couldn’t take the humidity and melted away, so I certainly had some losses. From a bird, bee and butterfly perspective it’s exactly what I hoped for and so fun to watch. |
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