Salvia madrensis 'Red Neck Girl' Native each bristling with protruding styles

each bristling with protruding styles like a tiny Sputnik

Redvein enkianthus

Landscape use: rain gardens

and that coastal colonists later drank as a homegrown coffee or tea

Salvia madrensis 'Red Neck Girl' Native each bristling with protruding stylesSalvia madrensis, the forsythia sage, is a big, robust perennial from the mountains of Mexico, grown for a late season show of soft yellow. Broad, quilted, triangular leaves clothe stout, square, mint family stems, and in fall the plant lifts terminal clusters of clear yellow flowers that recall a forsythia in bloom and give the sage its common name, an unusual color and a welcome one so late in the year. This selection, named 'Red Neck Girl' by our