Autumn Sage (Salvia greggii) is delightful to use as a small, ornamental, flowering shrub in a perennial bed or as a low hedge. Its aromatic foliage quickens the senses, and its flowers will surely draw hummingbirds. This soft, mounding shrub normally 2-3 ft. tall, grows small, mintily aromatic green leaves that are evergreen in warmer climates. This variation grows coral-pink flowers borne on racemes from spring to frost.

It is disease- and insect-free, deer-resistant, and drought tolerant, and once established, it should not be fertilized.