Salvia greggii Lipstick Rudbeckia black green foliage

black green foliage

the grey-green

including hummingbirds

creamy-yellow flowers on 18" pencil-sized stalks in early spring

'Glory' went on my "must-have" list as soon as I saw it many years ago in the Savory's Minnesota garden

Salvia greggii Lipstick Rudbeckia black green foliageSalvia 'Lipstick' is one of the longest flowering and best performing Texas sage cultivars we have trialed. In our garden, it begins flowering in early May and continues through November. Each compact 3' tall x 3' wide clump of Salvia greggii 'Lipstick' is simply smothered in terminal flower spikes of lipstick red (RHS 50A) flowers, each highlighted by a white throat and brown calyx a hummingbird fiesta. Texas sage makes a great deer resistant,