The Salvia plant family is vast, with some botanists and horticulturists estimating there are possibly 3,000 species growing ...

There is a huge range of salvias available to grow in your garden. For a vibrant magenta color, try this one that attracts ...

One of the more unusual and sought after salvia is white sage. ... There are 800 different kinds of salvia plants -- red, blue, purple, pink, rose, white, yellow and mixtures.

(Deer will eat Salvia penstemonoides, big red sage or Penstemon sage, but not many others.) Salvias claim some 900 species, found around the globe. And many attract hummingbirds, ...

Salvia microphylla 'Little Kiss': A more compact version of Salvia 'Hot lips'. Profuse flowers start red, then turn red and white, and end the season white. Produces gazillions of flowers on an 18 ...

Tropical sage (Salvia coccinea) is a vibrant Florida native perfect for an island butterfly garden and an interesting ...

The cherry sage or autumn sage, Salvia greggii, is native to Texas and blooms nonstop from late spring until frost. It, too, is a deep red with other colors now available.

Plants that flower and thrive during the hottest days of summer and continue to bloom until frost are always worth knowing and growing.

Red sage is an herb used in traditional Chinese medicine. ... Danshen, or red sage (Salvia miltiorrhiza), is an herbal medicine made from the dried roots of red sage plants, ...

Big Red Sage, or Salvia pentstemonoides. Courtesy Ray Mathews, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center I recently went looking for one of the rarest of Texas’s rare plants in what seemed like an odd ...

Known as scarlet sage, tropical sage, or blood sage, Salvia coccinea is a short-lived perennial found growing throughout most of Florida, the southeastern U.S., west to Texas, and southward to ...