@bhart90
I am in a similar or same zone as you but live in Utah, I am pretty new to Salvia's (grew hot lips, a coral flowering salvia similar to hot lips and one other salvia when I lived in California a few years ago. However, I saw Salvia Darcyi (Pscarl or Vermillion Bluffs) at a local nursery last year and the hummers were going nuts on them and that plant started my Salvia OBSESSION (lol) I found a couple of Black and Blue Salvia's last year as well, I covered them with a solid piece of tree bark (from a maple tree that I cut down) and then mulched them in about a foot of mulch, they overwintered just fine. I also way late in the year purchased Salvia's from Flowers by the Sea (FBTS), but none of those overwintered, (my fault for purchasing them too late in the year, is my only conclusion that I can come up with). So I ordered a ton about 20 or so from FBTS again this year and got them in the ground (or in pots the more tropical or warm plant zones) early. They are doing good, the Radio Red Salvias that I bought from them always have bees and hummingbirds visiting them and so far they have bloomed since I bought them, the only trouble I have with them is they tend to fall over a bit, my Vermillion Bluffs attract bees non stop (mostly Native bees) and hummers as well. My Amistad Salvia's attract hummers, the Dancing Doll Salvia and shell dancer I have attracts hummers as well. I have others as well (a lot of "elk" salvia, FBTS bred) and they seem to be taking a break from flowering at the moment, (maybe I need to cut them back a bit, to encourage more flowering????) Anyway there are a lot of Salvia's I think that will do the trick, but my red flowering salvias seem to bring in the most species of pollinators (birds and bees)...
