With migration patterns shifting for hummingbirds, there's a good chance you can attract them in the fall if you plant this ...

Having pretty flowers in your garden isn't just limited to the warmest seasons. Plant a variety of blooming annuals for ...

Of the more than 800 kinds of salvia, the most common is the ancient herb Salvia officinalis or common gray culinary sage. Square stemmed, with pungent foliage, these awesome plants come in many sizes ...

Take a stroll through almost any Central Texas garden and chances are you’ll come upon at least one type of salvia. Salvia is the largest genus of plants in the mint family, and is also commonly ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Many gardens go without sage in California but at the cost of soul. Sage ...

Plants that flower and thrive during the hottest days of summer and continue to bloom until frost are always worth knowing and growing. Such is the case with salvias or sages. These versatile members ...

The long, sizzling, humid days of August can be rough on flowering plants in the landscape. Gardeners can choose to avoid the heat by putting the garden to bed and stay inside during the hottest part ...

It is one of the flukes of Western gardening that fall is not a prelude to dormancy, but a second spring. As days shorten, many native plants, dormant during the inferno of summer, begin to bloom ...

The question posed was: If you could only grow one flowering plant, what would it be? For me, the answer to that quiz is easy: salvias. Not only does this wonderfully-varied family of plants produce ...

I know that the cold weather is here when I begin to garden from inside the house. Often, I've been caught looking out the window and discussing (with myself) all the things I want to change when the ...

Late August it may be but trust me – the best is still to come. Mornings will grow colder and darker over the coming weeks but despite that, we can expect a glorious explosion of floral colour.

Take a stroll through almost any Central Texas garden and chances are you’ll come upon at least one type of salvia. Salvia is the largest genus of plants in the mint family, and is also commonly ...