From Plants of the Southwest in summer, 2018.
I put it in the potting bench curve, not knowing where to grow this. In 2019 I moved it to the kitchen courtyard garden where, in its second year, it bloomed most of the summer and was a tall, pretty, although spindly red flowered plant.
Nice, but it's monocarpic, meaning it dies after blooming. So it won't be back in 2020 and I need to plant something else up against the fence behind the 'Blonde Ambition' grass.
Nice, but it's monocarpic, meaning it dies after blooming. So it won't be back in 2020 and I need to plant something else up against the fence behind the 'Blonde Ambition' grass.
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| August 312, 2019, going by |
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| August 31, 2019 spindly and tall behind the 'Blonde Ambition' grass, but flowers are a nice bright red color, hummingbirds love it. |
I got it on a complete whim after lunch at The Kitchen at Plants of the Southwest one day. It said "part shade", but all of my research about this unknown (to me) plant says it needs full sun.
It's a high desert wildflower, and kind of wispy and thin looking. It was hard to find a picture of what the plant actually looks like -- most photos only show the flowers close up or the first year foliage. It's a biennial, only flowering in the second year., and then dying after bloom, but reseeding itself easily.
The foliage is a lacy rosette.
The foliage is a lacy rosette.
The red second year flowers are supposed to be quite eye catching and hummingbirds love them. The plant itself, though, is small and wispy.
