Here are some pictures of it in bloom and the 3 hummingbirds
have been drinking from it today!
I find that red flowers are so hard to photograph as well as
cardinal red birds...Something about the red changes as you
work so hard to take the picture with a good background.
I'm new so I might be stating the obvious. It is Salvia Greggii. Round these parts (Texas), we call it Cedar Sage, Autumn Sage and seems like there's another name that has just drained from my brain. Here's a couple pictures (in different light) to be sure we're talking about the same plant. It bloomed like crazy in the spring and kinda petered out midsummer or so (but I am a plant abuser) but it has come back now in it's full glory.
Thanks, y'all. Can never have too many salvias. I have a hot pink one that's coming back strong. I promised myself I'd keep track of it's name. Lost. On the other hand, I have a pretty little bright purple one that I do have the label for but I think that it's wrong. So y'all should know that generally speaking I'm not good with names. But Texas is so full of the beautiful Autumn Sage aka Salvia Greggii that Ms Smarty Plants here couldn't resist answering your 'whatchamacallit' question.
I had not been on to see your comments
due to blood pressure up and down erratic
so thank you for your comments and
the salvia was called autumn sage
years ago in the pot it came in
here is a visitor last week
thanks for chiming in and being so nice
Sheri in alabama
Green with envy here, we had snow and freezing temps yesterday 
with Marilyn, the pics are beautiful - I too am curious which variety of autumn sage it is. 
