Well Bob:
Looks like I will need to try growing this one
Keep us posted as to your success or other note worthy
items if you grow it.The geoseed website had some other Salvias of interest too.
Thanks
Art

Salvia roemeriana is a very attractive little Salvia....though it can become cleistogamous after flowering for a couple of months....ie flowers don't open, just set seed. I query the name 'Hot Trumpets', this is surely just a commercial name to promote sales, as is the case with many other Salvias. S. roemeriana is S. roemariana, I have never considered this species to be variable......but will happily be proved wrong!

Bugbite

I like S.roemeriana. I find it useful to add some colour in summer to my spring bulb beds when the bulbs are either below ground or have been dug up for drying and the beds are looking empty.

Whilst there are often some roemeriana self-seedlings that sprout, I always save some seed for a Feb/March sowing in my potting shed and then plant out after any risk of frost is over.

The above pics show a few in one of my bulb beds and these will be pulled up replaced with some potted up bulbs - of which many of the Dec/Jan early flowering dwarf Narcissus are already sprouting leaves!

Jim