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Hardiness: USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2 °C (10 °F) USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 °C (15 °F) USDA Zone 9a: to -6.6 °C (20 °F) USDA Zone 9b: to -3.8 °C (25 °F) USDA Zone 10a: to -1.1 °C (30 °F) USDA Zone 10b: to 1.7 °C (35 °F) USDA Zone 11: above 4.5 °C (40 °F)
Other details: Average Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds This plant is suitable for growing indoors
Soil pH requirements: 6.1 to 6.5 (mildly acidic) 6.6 to 7.5 (neutral) 7.6 to 7.8 (mildly alkaline)
Patent Information: Non-patented
Propagation Methods: From herbaceous stem cuttings From seed; sow indoors before last frost
Seed Collecting: Allow unblemished fruit to ripen; clean and dry seeds N/A: plant does not set seed, flowers are sterile, or plants will not come true from seed
Plant is food for some critter, and has never bloomed. Applied a systemic insecticide, and it's eaten up less; still no flowers. Hope it makes good compost.
On Aug 19, 2009, Birdmandan from Cincinnati, OH wrote:
Easy for a nongreen thumb to grow. New starts from cuttings are easy and will be ready to plant in just over a week, if kept in a south facing window with full sun. The hummers just love this plant, some hummingbirds dont even stop at feeders close to the plants. We start with three plants each year and end the year with twenty five or thirty, thats after giving away a few dozen.
On Aug 13, 2007, Katye from Sammamish, WA (Zone 7b) wrote:
Planted in containers spring 2006. Despite the very cold temperatures we had that winter, both plants came back & are larger than they were last year. I was surprised - nothing else that was left in planters over the winter survived.
On Mar 13, 2007, greenie67 from Longview, TX (Zone 8a) wrote:
This was by far one of our very favorite plants last summer. It was a hummer, butterfly and bee magnet and is very easy to propogate from cuttings. I'm hoping to have them across our entire back fence this summer. Very hardy and a fast grower!
On Jun 19, 2004, CaptMicha from Brookeville, MD (Zone 7a) wrote:
This plant is candy for japanese beetles. If you don't want to spray it because of hummingbirds, the beetles will shred it.
It's very pretty though and gets bushy in full sun. It takes a while to fill out if grown from seed.
Regional...
This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
Auburn, Alabama Mobile, Alabama Chico, California Los Angeles, California Manhattan Beach, California Montara, California Sacramento, California Santa Barbara, California Bartow, Florida Lake City, Florida Pensacola, Florida Riverview, Florida Rotonda West, Florida Sanford, Florida Sarasota, Florida Sebastian, Florida Titusville, Florida Trenton, Florida Chicago, Illinois Indianapolis, Indiana Hebron, Kentucky Shreveport, Louisiana Grand Rapids, Michigan Newberry, Michigan Mathiston, Mississippi Mount Laurel, New Jersey Yonkers, New York Elizabeth City, North Carolina Cincinnati, Ohio Portland, Oregon Montgomery, Pennsylvania Alice, Texas Beaumont, Texas Broaddus, Texas College Station, Texas Desoto, Texas Edinburg, Texas Elgin, Texas Fredericksburg, Texas Galveston, Texas Garland, Texas Gladewater, Texas Houston, Texas (2 reports) Humble, Texas La Porte, Texas Longview, Texas Rosenberg, Texas San Antonio, Texas Tyler, Texas Woodway, Texas Edinburg, Virginia Kalama, Washington Sammamish, Washington Germantown, Wisconsin
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