Salvia Hot Lips

10 11 as perennial and hardiness zone 5 9 as annual in.

Salvia hot lips. When it s hot the flowers go solid red. Borne in loose terminal racemes the blossoms are lipstick red in early summer turn vivid red and pure white in mid late summer before changing to white when the days shorten. Sat 10 may 2014 04 00 edt first published on sat 10 may 2014 04 00 edt. Since then brilliant varieties such as pink lips amethyst lips and so cool pale blue have increased the mexican salvia s following among gardeners.

Blooming from spring until hard frost in fall the flower color will vary seasonally. They have paired simple or pinnately lobed often aromatic leaves and 2 lipped flowers in whorls forming simple or branched spikes or racemes. Salvia microphylla the baby sage graham s sage or blackcurrant sage is an evergreen shrub found in the wild in southeastern arizona and the mountains of eastern western and southern mexico. Noted for its pretty bicolor flowers salvia hot lips is an evergreen perennial that will reward you with a profusion of eye catching brilliant red and white flowers from early summer to frost.

Also known as salvia microphylla hot lips or salvia jamensis salvia hot lips is a semi evergreen plant that s part of the sage family. Salvia hot lips plant grow and care shrub of the genus salvia also known as salvia microphylla hot lips plant or baby sage salvia hot lips perennial evergreen used as edible leaves and also for the ornamental flowers and the fragrant can grow in subtropics mediterranean temperate climate and growing in hardiness zone. Salvia hot lips a bushy ornamental sage with a yummy blackcurrant aroma jane perrone. The blooms appear continuously through the hottest of summers until the first frost in fall.

In the cooler times of spring and fall the flowers are strongly bi colored red and white. Genus salvia can be annuals biennials herbaceous or evergreen perennials or shrubs. It is a very complex species which easily hybridizes resulting in numerous hybrids and cultivars brought into horticulture since the 1990s. Plant of the week.

With its distinctive two tone flowers and scented foliage it s no surprise that salvia hot lips is a popular garden plant. Regardless of the time of. Other common names sage hot lips. Hot lips sage salvia microphylla hot lips sku 2265.

An ideal compact colorful and carefree choice for sunny low water gardens. Hot lips littleleaf sage salvia microphylla hot lips has distinctive brilliantly colored flowers that make hot lips salvia a special selection.