Salvia Red

A familiar plant, red sage (Salvia spendens), also known simply as red salvia, is technically a tropical perennial, but it's more commonly grown as an annual. The species has bright scarlet flowers, but some cultivars offer white, salmon, pink, lavender, burgundy, and orange blossoms. These hard workers bloom from June to frost. Red sage is used so often that many people consider it dull, but, if you need to inject a splash of red into a sunny landscape, few plants outperform this one.