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A. Texas A&M has two sites that illustrate
disease problems from perennials and annuals to turf, vegetables
and trees. Visit the Texas
Plant Disease Handbook to select plants by species. The Texas
Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab’s “See
What We Saw,” illustrates plant problems that gardeners
have sent them for analysis.
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 Mexican
Bush Sage (Salvia leucantha)
Mexican Bush Sage (Salvia leucantha) is a superb perennial
plant that is native to Mexico. From spring to late summer,
the bush makes an attractive mound of narrow, strappy gray-green
leaves on upright shoots. In late summer through fall, fuzzy
purple blooms appear for a stunning show that also happens to
be quite popular with hummingbirds. The standard type sports
a purple calyx with a protruding white center flower. Also available
is a form with both purple calyx and purple flower. Mexican
bush sage prefers full sun to part shade. The blooms also dry
well, retaining a light purple-lavender color.
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- Prep the winter vegetable garden by stirring in compost, greensand
or other minerals, and an organic fertilizer to blend for a few
weeks.
- Finish light pruning of spring-blooming perennials like salvias,
and dead-head others, like pavonia, and turks’s cap.
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