Sage Is Blooming! [UPDATED]

...in March! I know I keep going on about it, but Up North this would be a summer flower. Here, since it doesn't' die all the way back I guess it can jump right into blooming the minute the days are longer and the weather warmer (btw, this is Salvia Gregii--it's a woody-stemmed perennial variety that does better in hot, dry weather than the more herbacious varieties--I introduced Papa Wheeler to it in Belt Buckle last year, and now he is hooked; honey bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds love it too!)...

And here's some tulips I planted in oh, December? They came as extras in another shipment of something, can't remember what. Of course, they will need to be tossed as the climate is not right here for them to rebloom. However, supposedly species tulips can and I'm going to have to order some next fall (Love Clusiana and the Persian something or other--dark pink and kinda silver). In front of the tulips is black mondo grass and yellow violas; that's a mum in the middle. In the background is our crappy, rotten, peeling wood siding, which shall soon be covered by some pristine vinyl siding in a nice, neutral blue-gray (can't wait!)


UPDATE!! Here's the salvia a couple weeks later. I think this one is called "Lipstick":

The one in the foreground is "Raspberry" and behind it is "Lipstick":

The sun finally came out today and the bees are happily buzzing around it. More good news is that the siding is no longer yellow and peeling, but rather blue and vinyl--they are almost done--yayyy! Unfortunately for the flower beds along my foundations--a lot of the irises and amarylli got smashed by sundry ladders and work-boots....