(Scarlet Sage)

A classic bedding plant for sunny containers and beds, scarlet sage is a bushy, tender perennial that originates from Brazil. It has dark to medium green foliage and produces spikes of red flowers when temperatures are warm and accommodating. These tubular blooms are surrounded by equally showy, colorful calyces that persist long after the flowers have faded. The flowers are hummingbird pollinated so this is a shoe in plant for hummingbird gardens.

Full sun and average to rich garden loam with...

(Scarlet Sage)

A classic bedding plant for sunny containers and beds, scarlet sage is a bushy, tender perennial that originates from Brazil. It has dark to medium green foliage and produces spikes of red flowers when temperatures are warm and accommodating. These tubular blooms are surrounded by equally showy, colorful calyces that persist long after the flowers have faded. The flowers are hummingbird pollinated so this is a shoe in plant for hummingbird gardens.

Full sun and average to rich garden loam with...

(Scarlet Sage)

Named for the father of Belgium horticulture, Louis Benoit van Houtte, this tender perennial is one of the first scarlet sage selections to become available to gardeners. It is valued for its tall, upright habit and produces burgundy wine colored flowers from spring to frost. This antique variety has recently reappeared in modern nurseries because of its easy to grow and has elegant appeal.

A classic bedding plant for sunny containers and beds, scarlet sage is a bushy, tender perennial that...

(Scarlet Sage, Vista Purple Sage)

This is a purple-flowered cultivar of Salvia splendens, a tender perennial evergreen sage native to Brazil known as Scarlet sage. Not hardy, it is grown in the garden as an annual for continuous bloom from purple flowers massed on leafy, upright stalks above a clump of green, toothy leaves. Flowering can start as early as late spring and run to late fall, unchecked by the heat of summer. Prompt removal of spent flower stalks prolongs flowering.

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(Scarlet Sage)

Salvia ‘Vista Red’ features dense spikes of brilliant red, tubular flowers which bloom continuously throughout the warm summer months. As with other members of the ‘Vista’ series, its vibrant blooms are borne profusely atop bushy, compact, heat tolerant plants. This terrific, high performing salvia is a form of scarlet sage, a bushy, tender perennial native to Brazil.

The branched stems of scarlet sage are clothed with oval, pointed, dark to medium green foliage with lightly scalloped edges....

(Scarlet Sage)

A classic bedding plant for sunny containers and beds, scarlet sage is a bushy, tender perennial that originates from Brazil. It has dark to medium green foliage and produces spikes of red flowers when temperatures are warm and accommodating. These tubular blooms are surrounded by equally showy, colorful calyces that persist long after the flowers have faded. The flowers are hummingbird pollinated so this is a shoe in plant for hummingbird gardens.

Full sun and average to rich garden loam with...

(Scarlet Sage)

A classic bedding plant for sunny containers and beds, scarlet sage is a bushy, tender perennial that originates from Brazil. It has dark to medium green foliage and produces spikes of red flowers when temperatures are warm and accommodating. These tubular blooms are surrounded by equally showy, colorful calyces that persist long after the flowers have faded. The flowers are hummingbird pollinated so this is a shoe in plant for hummingbird gardens.

Full sun and average to rich garden loam with...

(Scarlet Sage)

A classic bedding plant for sunny containers and beds, scarlet sage is a bushy, tender perennial that originates from Brazil. It has dark to medium green foliage and produces spikes of red flowers when temperatures are warm and accommodating. These tubular blooms are surrounded by equally showy, colorful calyces that persist long after the flowers have faded. The flowers are hummingbird pollinated so this is a shoe in plant for hummingbird gardens.

Full sun and average to rich garden loam with...

(Scarlet Sage)

Picante series scarlet sage is a bright, bushy, tender perennial native to Brazil that is most often used as an annual bedding plant. Known for their vigor and reliably abundant blooms, plants in this series produce spikes of red, purple, salmon, burgundy or pink flowers from late spring to autumn. Popular cultivars within the series include 'Picante Purple' and 'Picante Burgundy'. Picante series scarlet sage is also known for being fairly shade tolerant, an unusual attribute among salvias. Its long...

(Scarlet Sage)

A classic bedding plant for sunny containers and beds, scarlet sage is a bushy, tender perennial that originates from Brazil. It has dark to medium green foliage and produces spikes of red flowers when temperatures are warm and accommodating. These tubular blooms are surrounded by equally showy, colorful calyces that persist long after the flowers have faded. The flowers are hummingbird pollinated so this is a shoe in plant for hummingbird gardens.

Full sun and average to rich garden loam with...