Salvia
Salvia nemorosa · Garden flowers
Salvia
New York Botanical Garden, 26 May 2025
A bedding display run in drifts rather than a single block: violet-blue as the dominant colour, with a band of pink cutting straight across it and a paler blue holding the rise behind.
Woodland sage is a standard border plant for exactly this kind of mass effect, dense enough in flower to read as a solid colour from any distance. The bees in it are the reason to plant it; a good stand in June is audible before it is visible.
Birds, insects, plants and other wildlife, mostly from Brooklyn, with some from further afield.
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