Salvia Greggii Radio Red

I got more Radio Red salvias at Newman's. 

I went in looking for a mum for the urn in front, but it's too late in the season. But they had a table full of Radio Red greggii salvias, and I've had that on my list to get more of next year.

It's my favorite red salvia, redder than Furman's Red, bigger, glossier leaves than the Salvia greggii (Hot Lips I think) I got at Lowe's and more compact than Windwalker Red (which is actually S. darcyi x microphylla, not a greggii variety)

So I got several and plopped one in its nursery pot in the urn.

I have two that are in the kitchen courtyard. None of the pots I overwintered survived, but the two in the ground did.

I want two more to put in pots at the deck -- the Windwalker Red really got too big and lanky in a pot there.

And one to plant in the circle garden where the annual Strawberry Fields gomphrena was -- that never grew into much of anything.

It's too late to plant one in the circle garden, so all four that I just got will go in the garage when hard cold hits.

They are hardy to zone 7 and we are supposed to be 7 now, although I think we're right at the edge if not solidly in a colder winter zone.

But we'll see if these four new Radio Reds make it.