Jenny-it must be coming onto fall where you are. I just read a description of the common species lantana as "a brilliant bloomer with bad manners in frost-free climates!"

SRS--two years ago a friend gave me a salvia gregii that has done OK but not great in my garden. He doesn't remember the cultivar and I have been thinking about trying some other cultivars to see if they do better. I do love those reds.

One plant I am trying without success to dig out of my garden is obedient plant (physostegia virginiana.) It was already here when we bought the house and I think is an old cultivar. It gets really tall, flops over, is a very uninspiring lavender/pink, gets powdery mildew and invades everywhere.

It should have been named 'disobedient plant.'