Texas Gardening: Fireside chat - Part 2 - pull up a chair and sit a spell..., 0 by WillisTxGarden

WillisTxGarden wrote:
Pod - Salvia patens is a blue salvia - aka: Gentian Sage (I believe pics are in the PF's)
I think there are numerous cultivars that are derived from the species - (still referred to as S. patens) - but,...if I'm not mistaken,...the species is a dark blue.

Sheila - Yep,....good idea! I think I could use the lattice screen to create
a sort of blind and possibly get a closer picture!
I remember when I first got a glimpse of one,...I told my DW, "it looked kinda like a Cardinal...but it didn't have a crest!" They're about the same size.

My DW, Dee,...got this pic of one of those Texas Leather-winged - Hairy Skeeter Eaters last year,...hangin' around in one of our Lantanas.
A most unusual bird ! ;~) Lee