Salvia "Purple Rain"

Look for plants or seeds next year. Salvia verticillata Purple Rain. pic in july 2006 horticulture.

Pine Bush Plants

Pine Bush Lupine Festival was held today. A bit gray and dreary, with spitting rain, but still they seemed to have good turnout. And all the lupine plants were gone by the time I got there at 1:30. I should have realized that. Next year, earlier.

I did buy some "Great Blue Lobelia" or Lobelia Siphilitica. North Creek Nurseries has some nice pictures and cultural info. Odd, it's not really a sunny, dry, sandy soil kind of plant. Oh well, it's pretty, attracts hummingbirds and butterflies. Hopefully it will grow in the back garden.