This is good, basic pruning guidance for this genus, but the Salvia genus includes a wide variety of plants, so pruning practices vary within the genus. The Flowers by the Sea (a reliable reference) ...

Salvia divinorum, or salvia for short, is an herb in the mint family often used for its hallucinogenic effects. It’s native to southern Mexico and parts of Central and South America, where the ...

The ornately colored sea anemone (uh-NEM-uh-nee) is named after the equally flashy terrestrial anemone flower. A close relative of coral and jellyfish, anemones are stinging polyps that spend most ...

In a recent column, I recommended the website Flowers by the Sea (www.fbts.com) as a good source of information about Salvia varieties as well as Salvia plants. A reader who visited this website ...

Scores of tiny shrimplike crustaceans make a nightly pilgrimage from underwater caves out to feed in the open sea. Bellies ...

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Castello Aragonese is a tiny island that rises straight out of the Tyrrhenian Sea like a tower. Seventeen miles west of ...

Salt in the sea, or ocean salinity, is mainly caused by rain washing mineral ions from the land into water. Carbon dioxide in the air dissolves into rainwater, making it slightly acidic. When rain ...

Today will be a chillier day, with sunny spells and patchy cloud cover, and it will be dry for most. Breezier along eastern coasts, with a few showers moving in at times here. Tonight This evening ...

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Low pressure will move steadily northeastwards across southern Britain, before moving out into the North Sea later on Wednesday. This will bring unsettled, and at times, windy weather. Meanwhile ...

Enjoy your latte with a serve of sparkling ocean. Here are the cafes in Sydney set just near the water. NSW is currently in lockdown due to Covid-19. Residents of Greater Sydney aren't permitted to ...

The rain will clear early in the afternoon and a few brighter spells will develop, but a few showers may move up from the south. Tonight Tonight will start largely cloudy with a few scattered ...