Oxford Pink Salvia (Salvia microphylla 'Oxford Pink') is a mounding variety that will grow to 2-feet tall with a 30-inch spread. It bears rich pink flowers summer through fall.

Salvia microphylla (Mint Bush Sage 'Hot Lips') is an evergreen shrub that has unusual two tone red and white flowers. It blooms prolifically through the hottest summer until frost.

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 ...

-- Salvia microphylla or Hot Lips was introduced by Richard Turner, of California, and was brought from Mexico. The fast-growing clump — 6 feet wide by 30 inches tall — is adorned with eye ...

Gardeners who grow Salvia microphylla, 'Hot Lips', will agree it deserves the title "Longest Bloomer." Like the postal service, this flower delivered through wind, snow, sleet and polar vortex ...

Salvia microphylla is similar; Hot Lips is a striking cultivar with bicolor red and white flowers. Salvia splendens: This showy salvia produces short, fat scarlet flower spikes.

Woody Salvias: When it comes to a prolific fall bloomer, that drives hummingbirds in to fits of gluttony, nothing surpasses Salvia microphylla 'Hot Lips'.

Autumn sage is queen of fall gardens because few drought-resistant species flower so late. Yet this beauty was named for the habit of blooming in spring with a long second season of color in fall.

Salvia greggii is different than the also popular Salvia microphylla ‘Hot Lips.’ This Salvia benefits from being cut back to about 8 to 10 inches. Salvia greggii forms a woody structure.