Hummer Pics from my yard today
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Hummer Pics
On empress candle plant
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On pride of barbados
Nice shots! :) Love the flowers too.
Carlsbad CA migrants
Congratulation on the nice set-ups and many visitors acrisman.
From this summer in Philadelphia
Love that deep blue flower Sally! is it Salvia!
It looks like the Black and Blue Salvia http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/54031/
I love that plant even with it's invasive growth in my area.
I think it is beautiful. I grew one very similar this year called deep blue I got from swallowtail seeds. I was wondering if it was the same plant. Anyway I saved some seeds, and plan to grow it again. It was a favorite of the hummers, and bumble bees!
Bruce
Yes, it is Black Blue Salvia. The hummers go nuts over it. Definitely a favorite. It dies back it our area over the winter.
It dies back here too, but it has what look and feel like black walnuts on the roots; I don't think it would ever die completely1 I have loads of babies to share at swaps in the eary spring/summer.
That's so neat an underground growing organ. Thanks Sheila for sharing that pix.
Neat picture Sheila--I think I am going to try that plant out this spring.
Those do very well here, each year they seem to get more robust!
