Can this be rescued?

[LadyWhistledown]

Hello,
I have been to drop some shopping round to my elderly mum today and had to go round the to the back rather than the front doorstep. It's first time in over a year that I have been in her back garden and have discovered that it's all been too much for her while shielding.
I'm planning to go back and put right as much as I can but wondered about this bush in the picture. Is it salvageable or is it dead as a dodo? I'm not sure what it is/was, possibly some form of sage, but I know she loved it.
I can replace if necessary but if there's anything that can be done I'm happy to try for her. I suspect not but am very much not a gardener and have made this mistake before!
Photos attached of it now and in happier days!

It looks like Salvia “Hot Lips”, but there doesn’t seem to be any green growth on it, so it could be dead. I have it, cut back last autumn, but there is green growth on it, so I know it is alive. They do sometimes die off, especially after cold weather, so maybe that’s what has happened to your mum’s.

It’s Salvia, either Hot Lips or Pink Lips. Some of mine are still dormant at the moment, so I’d leave it a bit longer. It should have been pruned after flowering, so some of the end bits may be dead, but with any luck little shoots should appear lower down.

Snap!

I've got that, I'd expect to see green growth on it if it was alive. You could cut back to about 8 inches off the ground and see if anything grows. But the cold possibly killed it off.

Salvia Hot Lips.

Looks like the frost got it. Give it a week and you’ll know.

Thanks all! I can't see any green at all but will give it a good prune and see what happens. I suspect it's not survived the winter/year of neglect though.