Salvia madrensis 'Red Neck Girl' Native Landscape use: rain gardens

Landscape use: rain gardens

white-flowered form has long been grown for early spring fragrance

or among high-branched trees where the fiery bloom can blaze against fresh green

each bristling with protruding styles like a tiny Sputnik

Sarcococca orientalis keeps a tidy shape with almost no attention

Salvia madrensis 'Red Neck Girl' Native Landscape use: rain gardensSalvia 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