Most salvia George Herbert Walker Bush go to the Salvia genus of the stack ( Lamiaceae ) family . The highly redolent foliage for many of these plants is a culinary staple . Other salvia chaparral are sample - and - on-key garden performers , prise for their glorious blooms and drought tolerance , consort to the University of California Cooperative Extension . A fistful of outstanding sage bushes are part of the figwort kinfolk , native to the Southwestern United States .

Autumn Sage

A mint family shrub , mounding autumn sage ( Salvia greggii ) stands 2 to 3 substructure high-pitched . It has mint - scented dark-green foliation and a March - to - November blooming season . prime are most profuse in spring and autumn , with clear flushes of bloom in the summer months , accord to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center . fall sage ’s prime may be red , purple , white , orange or pastel tad . Regardless of chromaticity , they pass hummingbirds to the garden . aboriginal to Texas and Mexico , drought - large-minded fall salvia grows best in full sun and well - drained , rocky , sandy or loamy dirt . It will not come through in clay .

Raspberry Delight

Salvia " Raspberry Delight " is a summer - blooming intercrossed sage bush hardy to minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit . This 2- to 3 - foot - high and wide plant has a July - to - frost bloom of raspberry - red , tubular bloom above deep - dark-green foliage , according to the Missouri Botanical Garden . Hummingbirds and butterflies find the blush irresistible . An attractive border plant life , Raspberry Delight like full Sunday and juiceless to averagely moist , well - drained filth .

Texas Sage

shining - pinkish or empurpled blooms against hirsute , silver leaves are trademarks of the Texas sage bush ( Leucophyllum frutescens ) . Growing between 2 and 5 feet high – from time to time to 8 feet – Texas salvia is a figwort family shrub native to Texas and Mexico . Its 1 - column inch , chime - form flower , most vulgar after summer rainwater , make sporadic appearances from springtime to autumn . Texas sage needs well - drain territory and a dry clime . Although the flora is heat - tolerant , red-hot and humid night can kill it , caution the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center .

Purple Sage

American source Zane Gray immortalized this plant in his westerly novel , " The Riders of the Purple Sage . " Purple sage ( Salvia dorii ) is a low - sprawl bush with downy , silver leaves and dense , barbed branches . stand 2 to 3 foot mellow , it maturate risky in the ironical , undefendable spaces of the Pacific Northwest , California , Utah and Arizona . In May and June , purple sage ’s narrow flower clump fill up the landscape painting with a ocean of vivid blue or risque - purplish bloom . This sage bush likes full Lord’s Day and dry stain with maximal drain , advise the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center .

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