scarlet sage

American  

noun

1. a tender shrub, Salvia splendens, of Brazil, having ovate leaves and bell-shaped scarlet flowers.

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Etymology

Origin of scarlet sage

First recorded in 1905–10

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scarlet sage

"If it could only have been Arthur," she repeated sadly, gazing through the French window of the drawing-room to the garden where beds of scarlet sage flaunted brilliantly in the sunshine.

From Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

Upright flowering plants,--Abutilons, browallias, calceolaria "Lincoln Park," begonias, bouvardias, euphorbias, scarlet sage, richardia or calla, heliotropes, fuchsias, Chinese hibiscus, jasmines, single petunias, swainsona, billbergia, freesias, geraniums, eupheas.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

Masses of scarlet sage and cannas grew near the house, while at the rear a white-washed fence gleamed white.

From Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall by Vosburgh, R. G.

Salvia, or scarlet sage, looks well in wide borders, or near the underpinning of the house.

From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Shaw, Ellen Eddy

A few tough zenias and marigolds and a row of scarlet sage bore witness to the buckets of water that Mrs. Bergson had carried there after sundown, against the prohibition of her sons.

From O Pioneers! by Cather, Willa Sibert