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Plant of the Day
Saturday 30 November 2024
A tender spreading evergreen sub-shrub Cuphea ignea (cigar flower, firecracker plant, Mexican cigar flower, red-white-and-blue flower) is ideal as an unusual addition to summer containers.
Jill Raggett
Nectar for Lunch!! by Debbie Meader Via Flickr: A female Rufous Hummingbird sipping nectar! She chose our Cuphea as her flower of choice. Photo taken in our backyard in Camas, Washington.
Cuphea hybrida (Mexican cigar plant, var: ‘Fuente’ and ‘Cristo’)
Every year we buy a Mexican cigar plant for our resident Anna’s hummingbird “Arnie”. It is said that hummingbirds like the color red, so last year we bought a white and a red plant to test this hypothesis. Sure enough, Arnie ignored the white Cuphea and preferred the red one.
This year we bought a red Cuphea and a purple one. We’ve put both plants side by side and Arnie still seems to go for the red one. I’ve only seen Arnie twice this year and as any statistician will tell you, you need a minimum of three points of data to establish a trend line. It’s too early to say which plant will win the race but if the purple one is a no-hitter, I’ll buy two red Cupheas next summer.
A Quiet Little Seedling Plants
Chapter Ten
Cebu Blue Pothos
Begonia ‘Curly Fireflush’
Chinese Money Plant
Zebra Plant
Aglaonema Wishes
Alocasia ‘Dragon Scale'
Golden Jewel Orchid
Purple Passion
Golden Oxalis
Pothos (unspecified)
Marigolds
Calendulas
Gerbera Daisies
Celosia
Butterfly Weed
Cuphea
Previously: Chapter 1 Plants Chapter 2 Plants Chapter 5 Plants Chapter 7 Plants Chapter 8 Plants
Next: Chapter 11 Plants
Cuphea llavea / Bat-Faced Cuphea at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC
Cuphea exploding with color
Ms. Chalice and the Cup Brothers decided to go into town for some Christmas shopping and maybe even pick up some festive and tasty treats for the walk home when they happen upon the local toy store displaying some really adorably amazing toys that any child would love to ask for Christmas.
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