Salvia confertifolia

One of my favourites from this genus. This salvia from Brazil has large pleated deep green leaves and spikes of velvet red flowers late spring summer. The flowers are more like Persicaria than salvia and it will grow to 1.5m in full sun or partial shade.
This salvia does not present well in a pot so it will arrive looking leggy and scruffy, this is no reflection on its performance in the garden.