Bouvardia ternifolia Richard Lynch shrugging off frost and cold

shrugging off frost and cold that would cut down more tender kin

and holds a compact shape once established

a hot bank

In the warm months the shrub carries dense terminal heads of small

Cut the shrub back hard in spring once new growth shows

Bouvardia ternifolia Richard Lynch shrugging off frost and coldBouvardia ternifolia, the firecracker bush, is a compact, heat loving shrub of the southwestern United States and Mexico, hung from late spring to frost with clusters of long, slender, scarlet red tubular flowers. Few plants pull hummingbirds in like this one: the bright tubes are pitched exactly for their bills, and the bloom keeps coming through the hottest months when little else holds color. Whorls of narrow leaves clothe a tidy, two to three foot