Salvia greggii Lipstick Rudbeckia Left to its own devices

Left to its own devices

We acquired this delightful dwarf elephant ear from the Galloway brothers

(aka: Typhonium giganteum) Sauromatum giganteum is a little-known Chinese (Tibet to Manchuria) hardy aroid that is a must for collectors of the weird and wonderful

including hummingbirds

Salvia greggii Lipstick Rudbeckia Left to its own devicesSalvia 'Lipstick' is one of the longest flowering and best performing Texas sage cultivars we have trialed. In our garden, it begins flowering in early May and continues through November. Each compact 3' tall x 3' wide clump of Salvia greggii 'Lipstick' is simply smothered in terminal flower spikes of lipstick red (RHS 50A) flowers, each highlighted by a white throat and brown calyx a hummingbird fiesta. Texas sage makes a great deer resistant,