Salvia microphylla ‘Hot Lips’

Very cool and an all time Phoenix Perennials bestseller. Salvia ‘Hot Lips’ is a fast-growing wild selection of a Mexican sage which is adorned with stunning bicolour flowers — white flowers with red lips — from late spring until frost. But the expression of colour is temperature sensitive. In spring the flowers are usually all red, in early summer they are bicoloured/hot lipped, and in the hottest part of the summer all white, then returning to bicoloured in late summer and all red again in the fall. Will produce hundreds of flowers in a season. Well-drained soil in full sun. Hard prune each spring. Even worth it as an annual in colder climates or protect inside.