At dawn, the world begins to emerge to the light again. It is a time of slowly awakening to another day. Every dawn, the California towhee begins to chirp until the sun has risen, seeming to say, “I ...

Question: I have about 8 batface cupheas and I am having trouble with them. First, instead of mounding 360 degrees, the branches all grow forward (they do bloom well). They're in full sun, about 3 ...

Almost everyone is thrilled when hummingbirds visit their garden. It is really a matter of picking out the right flowers such as the new Ballistic, a variety of Cuphea ignea. The cuphea (KEW-fee-ah) ...

A white throated hummingbird in mid flight - Milan Zygmunt/Shutterstock If you are looking to attract hummingbirds into your yard with a low-maintenance, colorful flower, cuphea may be perfect for you ...

Three years ago I wrote an article on cupheas and merely gave casual mention to a variety called Vermillionaire which we had been growing for a year. Now after growing three more years including seven ...

I was not familiar with cuphea - also known as the cigar flower - until my neighbors Wren and Brad Ludwig introduced it into their front landscape. When the blooms appeared, so did hummingbirds - lots ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Spring has officially arrived, and with it comes another star in the world of Louisiana gardening. The LSU AgCenter is shining a light on a lesser-known but standout performer among ...

The bat-faced cuphea is a flowering shrub I found during a fall plant sale event at the UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center in Quincy. It made me laugh and charmed me at the same time.

Vol. 38, No. 4, Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Founding of the Society for Economic Botany (Oct. - Dec., 1984), pp. 439-451 (13 pages) Forty Cuphea species, recently collected in mid- and ...

If you’re searching for a plant that will attract hummingbirds to your garden and handle the Louisiana summer like a champ, look no further than Vermillionaire cuphea — one of the LSU AgCenter’s 2025 ...

Talk about a cutie! The Fairy Dust Pink Cuphea (Cuphea ramosissima ‘Fairy Dust Pink’) is a lovely warm-season annual. This plant is mounding and generally round in shape. The small green leaves are ...

Droplets of rain hang on the edge of maple branches twinkling in the morning sun as flocks of cedar wax wings, flickers and robins cheerfully sing while indulging on the ripe fruit of Toyon and ...