Season: Perennial/Annual. Height: 24-36 Inches. Bloom Season: Summer/Fall. Environment: Sun/Partial Shade. Soil Type: Average/Poor/Moist well-drained, pH 5.5-6.5. USDA Zones: 7-10 (As Perennial) All regions of North America (As Annual). Sage Scarlet Salvia Coccinea is a herbaseous, tender perennial wildflower. Sage Scarlet seeds can be started indoors or directly outdoors after last frost.The Scarlet Sage flowers appear continuously from early summer to first frost, attracting butterflies and hummingbirds. Sage Scarlet is especially desirable in natural area gardens where it maintains itself year after year without dominating or becoming invasive, and because of its brilliant color blooms, Scarlet Sage is also a good bedding, border and container plant. Salvia Coccinea seeds are easy to grow, and when Hummingbird Sage re-sows, the seeds remain in the soil, germinating continuously all year except during freezing temperatures. PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS: Sow Indoors: Winter/Spring (8-10 weeks before last frost). Sow Outdoors: Spring/Fall. Seed Depth: 1/16 Inch . Germination Time: 14-30 Days. Please message me with any problems I am sure we can work it out! Just take a minute, send me a message and I am sure I can make you happy. I am very nice and try my hardest to treat my buyers the way I would like to be treated. Thank You, Syukur