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‘Furman’s Red’ has large bright red flowers and S. Several cultivars are available that grow to the same size, but offer different flower colors. Most plants become twiggy after 2-3 years and heavy pruning is recommended in late fall to maintain smaller sizes and best foliage character.

Despite its common name of autumn sage, this is a perennial that boasts a long flower season. Once established, it requires only low amounts of supplemental water during summer. This perennial is deer-resistant, thanks to the smelly leaves. It is easy to grow and very tolerant of heat, sun and aridity. It comes from arid climate regions of the southwest, including Mexico, Texas and New Mexico, where it grows in sandy washes and plains, and tolerates temperatures to 0☏. A number of cultivated selections are available from nurseries and garden centers that provide white and salmon flowers.Īutumn sage is one of the most popular sages grown in the Inland Empire gardens and landscapes for use as an almost continuously flowering accent plant. Salvia greggii Plant Information Common Name: autumn sage Family: Lamiaceae Suggested Uses: perennials may need to be treated as an annual beds & borders. Flowering occurs spring, fall and intermittently throughout the year. Colorful flowers are most often cardinal-red and highly attractive to hummingbirds. long and have a light resinous coating on their surface. Large sulphurs, dogfaces, and yellow butterflies seem to be especially fond of theses flowers, but I have also seen clouded skippers, white-lined sphinx moths (see featured image), and others on them as well.The autumn sage is a evergreen shrub that grows with a mounding habit, 2-4 ft. My hummers buzz around them all summer, and I’ve seen several species of butterflies on them.

The best thing about Salvia greggii is that it provides a reliable source of food for hummingbirds and butterflies. Sulphur butterflies and hummingbirds frequently visit Autumn sage. Tubular flowers appear in fall and last until spring in low-desert gardens. A local nursery recommended pruning them back 1/4 every spring regardless of how harsh the winter was, and that seems to have worked pretty well for my plants, getting rid of any dead tips that would be unsightly sticking up above the foliage if I left them alone. Autumn sage is a small- to medium-size shrub that thrives in lightly shaded areas. Hard winters may freeze the plant back to the ground, or almost so, but prune the dead wood in spring and it will come back from the roots and/or remaining wood. Colors are usually in the pink spectrum, but cultivars vary from red to yellow. Younger plants are more compact, but it’s important to give them room to grow. My mature Salvia greggii are woody, shrub-like plants, 3-4 feet high, and equally as wide. While it has done well in beds that I have enriched, I would not over feed it. It will do fine in slightly alkaline soil but tolerates a wide variety.

This is true of most sages, so I wouldn’t plant Salvia greggii in the soggy part of your flower bed.Ĭoming from a desert, Salvia greggii doesn’t need rich soil and would probably do just fine in rock gardens, although I have planted all of mine in beds. While my plants don’t seem to mind wet, rainy springs, I suspect they will not tolerate soil that doesn’t drain. Some varieties will survive in Zone 6 (‘Furman’s Red’ and ‘Wild Thing’ are two), but most are limited to Zones 7-9. Unfortunately, Salvia greggii does not tolerate extreme cold. Whenever someone asks me to recommend a perennial for Oklahoma, my first answer is always Autumn sage. I’ve even transplanted a couple, and unlike many natives that resent being moved, my Salvia greggii bounced back quickly. To give you an idea of their hardiness, over the years, I’ve planted over ten Salvia greggii of various cultivars, and not one of them has died. It blooms from early spring into fall, never being entirely devoid of flowers. Native to the Chihuahuan Desert at high altitudes, Salvia greggii laughs at Oklahoman summers. One that I just don’t have to worry about is Salvia greggii, sometimes called Texas Sage. Some of my plants are more carefree than others. It’s hard to keep anything alive that isn’t moderately suitable for xeriscaping. That’s a chore with many flowerbeds, so I’ve always chosen to plant things that can tolerate heat and drought. I don’t have any sprinkler systems set up in my yard, so everything has to be watered by hand. When they don’t perk up overnight, I know I need to water. Week after week, we watch the 30% chance of rain four days away disappear into no chance of rain when the day arrives. The temperatures soar into the 100s every afternoon, and we’re lucky if it ever rains. July and August in Oklahoma are brutal but Autumn sage ( Salvia greggii) thrives in these conditions, anyway.