I would appreciate a trade of a few cuttings. I also am looking for several other flowering plants that attract butterflies and bees. I have cuttings of perennial skullcap, three varieties of blueberries, pineapple sage, apricot sprite agathache, royal purple salvia from Almost Eden Nursery, Edward Goucher abelia, mexican heather, new gold lantana, lucky yellow lantana, red bandana lantana, and solidago, joe pye weed, blue mist flower, butterfly red penta, red penta, gallardia, common pinks, leptodermis, plum huchera, sedum varieties, and society garlic. I have a few more varieties but can't remember right now.

I'm glad you are enjoying my blog. It started as a way to keep my son, who was in London in grad school at the time, up to date on what was happening in the garden. I really enjoy sharing the information with other gardeners, so I've kept it going. The flowers are small, but very abundant. Another flush of blooms is starting up now. We finally got a good rain here. The soil was so bone dry, that it's a miracle that my garden is still alive! The salivas hold up well in drought. Those were planted in spring 2007 and we had the worst drought in history here in North Carolina. Cameron

Hi Penny - I'm still following this post. My subrotundra that looked different from the others looked exactly like a coccinea. I think it was just a seed that snuck in. I didn't bring in any of my salvias. I intended to. I had some that were very small that I grew from seed and I was going to pot them up but got busy with other things (had to do some remodeling after a kitchen fire). I'm crossing my fingers that most of my zone-iffy salvias will return. We haven't gotten down to zero yet this winter but the last month or so, it's been pretty soggy. : ( Only one of my false yucca seeds germinated last year but it never grew any true leaves for some reason and finally died. John R. - the yellow greggi I saw was butter colored, not bright yellow but not off-white so I guess it just depends on whether you like that color. I don't care for bright yellow so I thought it was kinda pretty. The best greggi's for me are the ones that come back after winter. lol I'll be kicking myself if my salvias don't come back. I saved some seeds (greggi, guaranitica and darcyi) but they got exposed to a lot of heat when we had our fire then were stored in my shed until January. I put them in there because the bag they were in was so smoky then I forgot where they were. I'm going to try to plant some anyway just in case.

I can send you what they sold here a few years ago. There is the original one which is about 6 years old which came from Lowe's and some others I picked up at a local farm market last year for the salvia hedge. They appear alike to me. A slightly unrelated question. Can soil conditions cause flower color to be slightly variable? My oldest San Carlos Festival plants are a kind of dark pinkish. They match up well to photos I've seen of other SCF. The group I planted in the hedge are much redder. In other ways the plants are nearly the same taking into account that the ones in the xeric hedge have slightly smaller leaves and aren't quite as bushy.