Broad-billed hummingbird / colibrí pico ancho (Cynanthus latirostris) and native salvia. Note how the flower's anthers contact the hummingbird's bill, depositing pollen to be delivered to the next salvia blossom the bird visits. At Tohono Chul, Tucson, Arizona.
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Plant of the Day
Tuesday 12 March 2024
In a sheltered front garden on the south coast of Britain the Salvia rosmarinus (rosemary, rose of the sea, southernwood) is already flowering. This aromatic evergreen will bloom from early spring through summer and into autumn. The plant was even adding foliage and flowers to a shop window display further down the street.
Jill Raggett
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Mother nature provides many unique methods for telling time. One can use a sun dial or moon dial, one can phone time for the exact time at the beep. One can look at the color of the leaves (it's yellow-red season). One can ask a passing werewolf who is wearing a rolex. Or one can look at the natural flower clock Salvia Clevelandii where it is pi after 13 AM in the other morning.
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Finally passed the second chapter
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A hummingbird hawk moth feeds on salvia in a garden in London, UK. The moths are an increasingly regular migrant usually seen in July and August, though warming weather has meant a growing number are able to overwinter in the UK
Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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Silver Smudge
Watercolor on Grass Paper
2023, 8"x 12"
Salvia, Sage
Kyanite
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