Haven't seen any others round here so not common in that sense - it looks tarty to me - and much prefer the Bumbles and the Love series and Amistad. I don't like pineapple sage either - even here it starts to flower far too late and then curls up when colder nights set in, not even frosts.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Hurrah! The hedge Bumble/Hot Lips hedge and other bushy salvias by me haven't done very well this year. The weird spring knackered them and they didn't get going until late June. The street trees are in full leaf so the hedge is shaded, but hopefully next year the trees will be pollarded, the spring more normal, and the bees will enjoy getting the benefit of full flowering. It's a healthy and effective small hedge and I'm very glad to have it.
I have just trimmed it back to hopefully get a full flowering in Oct/Nov
Absolutely @Obelixx. It's also appropriate to call some plants and plant colours 'brash'. Hypericum, Solidago [Golden Rod] and Lysimachia vulgaris [yellow Loosestrife] are three that I put into that category. 'vulgaris' describes that one particularly well
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I love salvias but not keen on the red and white colour combo, preferring the cooler blues and purples. That said, I do have a salmon pink one - salvia greggii 'Salmon Dance' which I just leave in the ground and it does indeed dance around the other plants. I was also given a shrubby salvia in a really bright pink a few years ago which I had to hoik out of the border when it got too big but took a lot of cuttings (salvias seem to strike very easily), giving a lot away but I saved a couple. Those I planted in the worst conditions for them - in front of a north facing beech hedge and of course they are leaning towards the sun and only now are showing a bit of flower. But if it keeps them within bounds that's fine by me and they hide the scrubby bit under the hedge.
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"Tarty." "Common." I'm dying at some of the descriptions here. I don't know how a flower bush can be morally dubious, but it's hilarious.
Hypericum, Solidago [Golden Rod] and Lysimachia vulgaris [yellow Loosestrife] are three that I put into that category.
'vulgaris' describes that one particularly well
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...