Coast and drought tolerant once established
small Petunia-like blue flowers with deep purple centers from spring-fall
Mexican Chocolate Scarlet Sage: Brilliant fire-engine red tubular blooms to 3”-long emerging from contrastic black calyces on 8” black stems
Good in pots and borders
bell shaped
Salvia lanceolata Size:4 inch Coast and drought tolerant onceRusty Sage, Lance leaf Sage, or Cape of Good Hope Sage: Slow growing, woody evergreen shrub to 4 5' tall and wide with small, pointy, grey green, hairy, aromatic leaves that can be used for flavoring, and distinctive rusty rose colored flowers from late spring fall, followed by persistant brown seed pods. Attracts birds, hummingbirds and pollinators. Full sun to part sun. Low water. Seacoast, wind, heat, sand and drought tolerant once established.