Interested in pasque. I have Wild blue lupine, white fragrant datura, Husker Red Penstemon, and Purple Volcano Salvia if you are interested. My addy is cawm1@netscape.com Cheryl

May Night is such a good grower that I keep buying them. Late in the season I am always finding quarts on sale. I see if offered everywhere here, so it is easy to find. May Night is quite a deep intense color. It is so deep it does not project far. It's best to flank it with contrasting colors. If it's against solid green you will not see it as well. If I stay on top of deadheading they just keep on going. I find them pretty neat in habit. I have EAst Friesland and a few others and they don't bloom nearly as much. I have Salvia White Hill and that is pretty nice. I have had my eye on Blue Hill for the color and want that too, but have not seen it offered locally.

What, no one mentioned morning glories yet? A big mass of "Heavenly Blue" is gorgeous, and some of the Japanese varieties are knock-outs. We're not early risers here so I planted white moonflower(ipomoea alba) instead. If you need a spring blue, I haven't seen lungwort (pulmonaria) mentioned yet. It's a spreader, but I don't know if you can wintersow it because I've never seen seeds. I bought a tiny one at a local plant sale in May. Mine looks like the one at the link. It also comes in variations with more or less silver on the leaves, and different flower colors like white or coral. Double-check variety descriptions to make sure you get a blue one. New to me this year: blue milkweed (tweedia aka oxypetalum) - small pale blue flowers, felty ivy-looking leaves. I don't like the smell of the leaves when they are touched, or the milky sap that drips when deadheading, so I moved them from the windowbox to the ground last week. They didn't miss a beat. This plant is sturdier than it looks. And I bought one Black and Blue salvia to see what all the raves were about. Wow! it looks great. I should have bought three. I want more blue, too, so I've been reading all the suggestions. Keep it coming! -Edie Here is a link that might be useful: pulmonaria on wikipedia

Salvia tend to like it drier than water-thirsty roses. Watering 2 days a week (depends how long you're watering and how much volume if you're on a drip) sounds fine for the roses, as you're near the coast. Plenty of water especially for now. But, that being said, with certain established roses, like Julia Child, they can get by nicely will less water than other roses. And some salvia can stand more water than other varieties. So, I was trying to find a salvia that didn't mind being wee bit wetter than they probably naturally like that was that deep bluish purple. It's the salvia I was more worried about, as I was going to have to water for the roses. I ended up ordering 4 different varieties and will simply make the decision when they arrive, and plant the rest in my yard in other places, since I (and the hummers) love salvia :-) Patty S.