Cuphea Seed ( Annual )

Grow Cuphea for its vibrant, tubular flowers, excellent heat tolerance, and ability to attract pollinators like hummingbirds and butterflies, which are drawn to its abundant nectar. Cuphea offers a long blooming season, easy care, and a continuous burst of color for garden beds, borders, and containers, making it an ideal, low-maintenance choice for sunny, well-drained areas.
Cuphea's nectar-rich, tubular flowers are a favorite of hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees, providing a food source that draws these beneficial insects to your garden. These plants provide continuous color from late spring through fall, or even into winter in frost-free climates, adding lasting visual interest to your landscape.
Cuphea thrives in hot, sunny conditions and is remarkably drought-tolerant once established, making it a reliable choice for summer heat and a wonderful plant for less experienced gardeners. Its compact size and mounding habit make it suitable for various garden applications, including: Use it to create neat, colorful edges for garden beds and paths. Cuphea performs beautifully in pots and hanging baskets, allowing for close-up enjoyment of its unique flowers.

LET216 Rose Mexican Cigar Plant ( Cuphea Ignea Coan Rose)

Rose Mexican Cigar Plant is a colorful, compact flowering plant prized for its abundant rose-pink tubular blooms and glossy green foliage. Also known as Cuphea ignea 'Coan Rose', this charming heat-loving annual produces masses of slender cigar-shaped flowers accented with soft lavender to pale purple tips. The plants remain neat, bushy, and floriferous, making them excellent for containers, hanging baskets, borders, and pollinator gardens. With its long bloom season and tropical appearance, Rose Mexican Cigar Plant brings cheerful color from warm weather until frost.

Garden Uses:
Rose Mexican Cigar Plant is ideal for containers, patio planters, hanging baskets, border edges, tropical gardens, butterfly gardens, and hummingbird plantings. Its compact habit makes it especially useful near walkways, on porches, or in mixed containers where the small tubular flowers can be enjoyed up close. It combines beautifully with coleus, lantana, pentas, verbena, impatiens, begonias, ornamental peppers, and trailing foliage plants. In warm climates, it can also be used as a low flowering shrub or bedding plant.

Growing Information:
Start seeds indoors 8-10 weeks before the last expected frost or sow outdoors after temperatures are consistently warm. For best germination, maintain temperatures of 70-75°F and keep the growing medium evenly moist. Transplant outdoors after all danger of frost has passed. Plants perform best in full sun to partial shade and rich, well-drained soil. Regular moisture encourages the heaviest flowering, though established plants tolerate short dry periods. Rose Mexican Cigar Plant typically grows 12-24 inches tall and wide, forming a dense, rounded mound. In frost-free climates, it may grow as a tender perennial.

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