Plants like 'hot lips'

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I have a 'hot lips' plant in my garden and love it so much. It flowers every year, is low maintenance, the bees love it (something that's important to me) and looks pretty.

Im not very knowledgeable about plants and wondered if anyone has any suggestions for similar plants that we reflower every year, look pretty and that bees love?

Hot Lips is a salvia - there are loads of different varieties that will come back every year. Bees also love lavender.

As @AmandaHoldensLips says - Hot Lips is a salvia - there are lots of different types, some with similar flowers other with different ones.
Similar plants would be nepeta & verbena.
Look for perennials that are good for pollinators.

I had several hot,lips, but they all died in that hard frost we had late last year 😟. They were so beautiful.

There are variants - cherry lips and amethyst lips. And loads of other shrubby salvias. But if you have a sunny well drained spot also look at catmint, lavender, cistus, phlomis.

This is one of my purple salvia's, similar to Hot Lips, last year with a visiting hummingbird hawk moth enjoying it.

Gaura is a lovely plant to consider

Potentilla fruticosa Marian Red Robin

It's a good idea to have things that flower (and hence bees can feed on) at different times of year.

These aren't anything like a salvia to look at but fulfill your criteria of ' flowers every year, is low maintenance, the bees love it ... and looks pretty. ' ...
Pieris - evergreen bush (some types get large, I've got one in a pot) which gets lovely red leaves and clusters of white flowers in spring.
Hylotelephium spectabile (aka sedum spectabile) - good glaucous foliage from spring onwards then big clusters of pink, red or white flowers in late summer. They're known for attracting butterflies but bees too. They're very easy to propagate.

Heartfelt thanks everyone!
These answers really do help me as I'm not very smart about gardening!
I'm going to the garden centre next weekend and really excited now I know what to look for.

Hello
I just wanted to update with what salvias I bought!

I got

• amethyst lips - it's soooo pretty
• blauhugel
• Marvel Rose

The below are not my pictures but ones I found in google. I just love them all so much.

Persicaria is a perennial that the bees and flying insects love. There is a variety of types, and they spread.

hot lips flowers for ages, so along those lines I’d also suggest lychnis, any perennial geraniums (Rozanne is very long flowering and reliable) which will come back every year and below maintenance.