{"id":734,"date":"2007-02-21T20:11:38","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T03:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2007\/02\/21\/autumn-sage-salvia-greggii\/"},"modified":"2007-02-21T20:11:38","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T03:11:38","slug":"autumn-sage-salvia-greggii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2007\/02\/21\/autumn-sage-salvia-greggii\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Sage (Salvia greggii)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plants.usda.gov\/java\/profile?symbol=SAGR4\">Autumn Sage (Salvia greggii)<\/a> is a perennial subshrub native to Texas. Because of its attractive flowers, long blooming season (spring through fall), evergreen foliage, drought tolerance, and ease of cultivation, Autumn Sage is also a popular garden plant, especially in southwestern states like Arizona.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2007\/February\/Salvia-greggii.jpg\" alt=\"Autumn Sage (Salvia greggii) flowers\" title=\"Autumn Sage (Salvia greggii) flowers\" width=\"400\" height=\"522\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Autumn Sage has spike-like clusters of 1 inch (2.54 cm) long, red, pink, or white flowers. The nectar-filled flowers attract hummingbirds, and because these plants have such a long blooming season, hummingbirds will often claim ownership over them and will perch nearby to guard them from other hummingbirds.<\/p>\n<p>Autumn Sage grows extremely well here in southern Arizona, and it is one of the few plants in my Tucson garden that is not eaten by deer, rabbits, or <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/03\/08\/herd-of-javelinas\/\">Javelinas<\/a>. Autumn Sage is not poisonous or fetid-smelling, so it&#8217;s quite remarkable how wildlife-resistant it is. Autumn Sage grows a bit rangy with age and needs to be cut back occasionally, so I wouldn&#8217;t mind a little animal nibbling, but they just leave it alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autumn Sage (Salvia greggii) is a perennial subshrub native to Texas. Because of its attractive flowers, long blooming season (spring through fall), evergreen foliage, drought tolerance, and ease of cultivation, Autumn Sage is also a popular garden plant, especially in southwestern states like Arizona. Autumn Sage has spike-like clusters of 1 inch (2.54 cm) long,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2007\/02\/21\/autumn-sage-salvia-greggii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-garden-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}