Has anyone tryed growing this plant???I have found this online from a green house. they gave me a book on what they sell there.



eldon voorhees

I don't grow it but I have seen it listed on Hummer plant lists for the deep souh (zone 10)

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Eldon can you find a site where there is a picture?

Dianne
Southeast Alabama
Heat Zone 8
Sunset Zone 31

Dianne
Maybe this will help: http://www.fireflyforest.com/flowers/reds/red14.html

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Thanks I could not find one. Looks like a good hummingbird plant but don't know if it would take even our mild winters. We do get a few hard freezes.

Dianne
Southeast Alabama
Heat Zone 8
Sunset Zone 31

Dianne, this plant [Bouvardia ternifolia] grows in the mountains of southeastern Arizona and western Texas where there is some snow every winter. It ought to be able to tolerate your zone 8 winter. However, it is a dry country plant and it gets long and leggy if it gets too much moisture. It has not succeeded for me.

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Nancy L Newfield
Casa Colibrí
Metairie, Louisiana USA
USDA Zone 9

Thanks Nancy. Even though it looks interesting I don't have any plans of buying it to try.

Dianne
Southeast Alabama
Heat Zone 8
Sunset Zone 31

We have grown this interesting plant in a pot for about three seasons now in Wisconsin and it overwinters beautifully in our sun room every winter (the temperature there is kept at 50 degrees). When I bring it back out in the spring, I cut it back and it leafs out pretty quickly in the sunshine and warm temperatures. We have seen a lot of hummer usage, especially this year. We highly recommend it for our part of the country as a potted annual (it would probably be too short for planting in the ground.)

I will ask Michael to take a photo of it and we'll post it soon.

Here is an update with pictures:
Overview of the plant in a pot:


Close-up of the flowers:




Kathi and Michael Rock
Madison, Wisconsin
Zone 4/5

Here are photos of our Bouvardia. Of course, earlier in the season, it was much more attractive, but you'll get a basic idea of the plant.



Kathi and Michael Rock
Madison, Wisconsin
Zone 4/5

Kathi and Michael, That is really a very pretty plant and one I don't think I have seen. Since I am rapidly running out of room for indoor wintering this is one I will have to ignore next spring. Boy spring seems like an eternity away right now especially since I have just finished hauling all my plants back inside for the next two nights.

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

I love it - I keep it in a pot and overwinter it in a room that gets down to freezing, although I keep it just above freezing with row cover and Christmas lights. It can take quite a bit of cold and six months of cold dormancy with near zero watering.

Lisa
Central NJ/ z6b
Heat zone 5/6

Lisa, I had no idea that they could take that much cold.

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Well, it's come back three times sharing a pot with an abutilon that's done the same. Brugmansias, figs, asparagus fern, cordyline, abutilon, Red Dragon asarina are reliable with this treatment, cuphea so-so. Purple Majesty salvia was the most reliable salvia although it croaked after ten years, and agastaches a lost cause. Tender hibiscus, Cestrum nocturnum, pineapple sage and Hamelia patens can't take it either.

I'm tired of babying tender things AND all their bugs in the kitchen. Survival of the fittest from now on - except for the ones I'm really really attached too.

Lisa
Central NJ/ z6b
Heat zone 5/6

Last year I kept my Hamelia patens out in the mud room until it got too cold. At 40 degrees, it lost all of its leaves over night. I brought it into the kitchen where it stays about 65 unless I have the oven on as I closed off all the heat vents and it did come back like gangbusters in the spring. I have successfully overwintered an Agastache out there. It looked pretty bad but as soon as the days started to lengthen and it got a bit more sunshine it came back really well too. Unfortunately I only have room for two or three plants at the most out there but most of what I am bringing in will need it to be a bit warmer anyway (Hamelia patens, Cupheas,and calliandras. The rest will be cuttings or seedlings that I can keep on the plant rack.

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39