Bouvardia ternifolia Richard Lynch 'Winter's Hope'

'Winter's Hope'

The willow-like leaves

Set this narrow-leaved aucuba in part to full shade in good

Cut the shrub back hard in spring once new growth shows

Camellia rosaeflora is a graceful species camellia from China

Bouvardia ternifolia Richard Lynch 'Winter's Hope'Bouvardia 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