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christie_sw_mo

I forgot this salvia is looking pretty good again after a bad case of Southern Pink Moth bud worms in late summer. This is s. greggii 'Cold Hardy Pink'. My other salvias haven't recovered quite as well from the budworms.

I could make a pretty long list of plants that haven't gotten through the heat and drought very well, some that look dead and some that just look awful.

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Markay MD-Zone 7B

@christie_sw_mo, Miss Huff has been reliably hardy here in my zone 7 garden over the past 7 seasons. I thought it was dead a couple times when polar vortexes had our temps well below our average lows. I even dug it out twice thinking it was dead. Now I’m pretty sure it cannot be killed. It is massive and will bloom like this right up to the first hard frost.

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FrozeBudd_z3/4

The following all still going through the moderate frosts received here in the far north, Passiflora 'Fata Confetto as of Oct. 17 th ... okay, frost hasn't yet nipped it with being next to the house.

Astrantia 'Sparkling Stars Pink', this just doesn't stop, I think the bit of fertilizer given in August surely did something good!

Sorry, blurry photo ... the Fairy' rose also keeps chugging along, love this disease resistant very hardy carefree rose!

'Lovely Fairy', a sport of the above ... this one is truly 'lovely", photo was taken prior, but showing for comparison.

A rose of my own hybridizing work, this one is very sweet, can't wait for it to prove its worth in '27.

The last of the very hardy blackberries, these produce for two full months, mean thorny as heck, but has laughted off -45 F without winterkill, very flavorable like that of melons when fully ripe, don't eat prior or you lose out on the amazing taste, variety is 'Blasors Hardy Black' ...