Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 23:44:56 -0400
Reply-To: BB for Hummingbirds and Gardening for them in the Southeast <HUMNET-L@listserv.lsu.edu>
From: BB for Hummingbirds and Gardening for them in the Southeast <HUMNET-L@listserv.lsu.edu>
Subject: Re: [HUMNET-L] Salvia clevelandii
To: HUMNET-L@listserv.lsu.edu

In a message dated 6/21/02 10:41:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
curtiscr@PE.NET writes:

Dear California friends: Salvia clevelandii has been recommended
to me as a plant hummers love, but the flowers are evidently blue
or purple.  Have any of you had experience with this?
--
Curtis Croulet
Temecula, California

Salvia clevelandii - Cleveland Sage - is a great hummer plant. It does best
in low-water gardens, so it might not fit well in the typical suburban
Southern California garden which is irrigated wall to wall.

There are lots of great hummer plants that have blue flowers, and this is
one of them. Several of the best salvias have flowers in colors other than
red - salvia guaranitica is blue, salvia leucantha is purple and white,
salvia madrensis is yellow.

Ron Rovansek
Huntington Beach, CA