Hi Treehugger
Gorgeous pic and I love it, but it looks like a Salvia farinacea variety and not a splendens variety.
You can click..... Move this image to another plant, here's the link:
http://garden.org/plants/propo...
You can move it to the variety name of the one you think it is or just to the generic (parent) salvia
Salvias (Salvia)