Colour is very reminiscent of involucrata hybrids...but tbh, salvia has been hybridised so often, I have lost track of many of the cultivars. Bracts are not really similar as Mulberry Jam for example, but the vigour and longevity does suggest some involucrata, somewhere in it's lineage...but these days, I am finding the NOID label becoming almost ubiquitous in my garden plants.

It is a beautiful color

Thank you for your replies. i think i’ll file it away as Not Quite Wendy’s Wish!

"... i think i’ll file it away as Not Quite Wendy’s Wish!..."

I'm sorry I can't help you with your ID, but your comment made me smile. Years - decades! - ago, I kept trying to buy a hosta. I think it might have been Royal Standard but I can't quite remember. I must have bought something labeled as Royal Standard at least five times, by mail order, different companies, etc., and each time when it came up, it was NOT Royal Standard. So I had a little hosta bed named "Not Royal Standard". It got to be rather fun after awhile lol.

:)

Dee

I love magenta flowers and that one is stunning!

I’d send you cuttings if it weren’t against Australian law!

The foliage looks very different from any of the "Wish" series Salvias.

Flower color is similar to that of Salvia "Rockin' Fuchsia"* but it doesn't have the dark calyces of that hybrid.

*this one is a surprisingly hardy plant, marketed as an annual but which has survived subzero temps in my garden.

prairiemoon2, it’s autumn here. Definitely no snow on the ground here - ever!