Plant of the mint family

Usage examples of salvia.

THEY WALKED up to the chinaberry tree on Sunday morning, Ellen and her father, carrying a bou quet of red salvia, which grew in a clump by the steps.

Focaccia alla salvia, torta pasqualina, trenette col pesto, trippa con il sugo di tocco, burrida, tomaxelle, cima alla Genovese, dozens more.

Howbeit as halfe ashamed I drew towards her, and shee turned her selfe and sayd, Behold how he resembleth the very same grace as his mother Salvia doth, behold his countenance and stature, agreeing thereto in each poynt, behold his comely state, his fine slendernesse, his Vermilion colour, his haire yellow by nature, his gray and quicke eye, like to the Eagle, and his trim and comely gate, which do sufficiently prove him to be the naturall childe of Salvia.

Other plants said to discourage nematodes are dahlias, salvia, calendula, hairy indigo, velvet beans and garlic.

Royale-les-Eaux, backed by trim lawns emblazoned at intervals with tricolour beds of salvia, alyssum and lobelia, was bright with nags and, on the longest beach in the north of France, the gay bathing tents still marched prettily down to the tide-line in big, money-making battalions.

Four THEY WALKED up to the chinaberry tree on Sunday morning, Ellen and her father, carrying a bou quet of red salvia, which grew in a clump by the steps.

The list went on and on: pot marigold and winter cherry, salvia and summer jasmine and Virginia creeperanother of Tradescant's imports from the wilds of North Americaand roses, autumn damask, rosa damascena, the White Rose of York .

Slowly color leaks into it, not rosy-fingered but like a slowly spreading stain of blood orange, one moment lingering at the horizon and then flooding the garden and then golden light, and then a blue sky, and then all the colors vibrant in their assigned places, the trumpet vines, the roses, the white salvia, the marigolds, all shimmering in the new morning dew like glass.

At five-thirty, I'll pull up the salvia and replace them with Dutch iris, roses, snapdragons, ferns, ground cover.

Having denuded every garden centre for miles around, Valerie was now hiring four hundred scarlet salvias and three hundred yellow begonias from Rent-a-Garden.

Here are the magnolia, the laurel, the Japanese medlar, the oleander, the pepper, the bay, the date-palm, a tree called the plumbago, another from the Cape of Good Hope, the pomegranate, the elder in full leaf, the olive, salvia, heliotrope.

He showed his affection by producing presents of the aforementioned asters, salvias, lobelia edging, and summer chrysanthemums.

Clunky old gardening robots crawled along the edge of the white-and-scarlet salvias, rusty implements prodding at the soil.

He was now awaiting his tomatoes, his blue daisies, his petunias, and pansies and salvias of all kinds.

I went in the back way, past neatly tied raspberry canes and flaming rows of salvias, on to peer in through the kitchen window and knock on the pane.