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LindaTX8 wrote:
Ooh, those white ones are nice. I used to have some by where we park the truck, but they eventually went away. So hot outside, mid-nineties again today and tomorrow. I don't have many seedlings, but gotta keep them in the shady part of the yard now. Does anybody rescue plants? I have so many "orphans" from places that are now homes, businesses and parking lots. Here's one of them:
Oops, I forgot to add that it's Shrubby Blue Sage, Salvia ballotaeflora. It came from a lovely place near a creek where I used to go to hike around and just look and the plants and the critters. It about broke my heart when the little flags and sticks showed up and I knew that ones of the coolest areas in the whole S. A. area would be gone. I got out as many plants as I could, but oh man, it still hurts when I drive by there.

This message was edited Apr 17, 2006 1:42 PM