Red Salvia July 22, 2012

Red salvia really pops.  This salvia is a reseeding annual.  It is easy to gather seed and sprinkle it in bare spaces in the garden.  It grows really fast so that several "generations" of plants will flower each season.  In other words, plants will spring up from seeds that dropped to the ground the summer before.  The seeds from those flowers can be sown, and they will still have time to grow to maturity and flower before the first freeze.  The salvia in the picture above is growing with Blue Fortune Agastache.

Red Salvia, Blue Fortune Agastache, and Iron Cross Oxalis.  Also in the picture above is a little tomato plant.  I don't know how these little surprises happen - probably came from a bird dropping. 

Red Salvia with Pink Muhly Grass and Maximillian Sunflowers.