Re: Question about cuphea

What do you do after frost?  Does it return?
Bonnie ETN Zone 7


> [Original Message]
> From: Zemuly Sanders <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 10/2/2005 2:37:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Question about cuphea
>
> I have had Cuphea 'Twinkle Pink' for a few years now.  I haven't done 
> anything special to it before frost because I can't get near it. From the 
> time it starts blooming it is covered with bees.
> zem
> zone 7
> West TN
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 1:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Question about cuphea
>
>
> > The one I bought this spring, which has made a very attractive
container 
> > plant
> > all summer and won a blue ribbon in last week's flower show, is listed
on 
> > the
> > label as an annual.  I had never grown it before - bought it at a plant 
> > sale
> > because it looked like a nice plant.  I was thinking I would bring the
pot 
> > in
> > and see how long it would last this winter.
> > Auralie
> >
> > In a message dated 10/02/2005 1:50:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > holmesbm@usit.net writes:
> > One of my friends grows a lovely border of cuphea hyssopifolia by her
> > sidewalk in a Southern exposure but each year she has to replace it. Is
> > there anyway she can protect this plant in Zone 7...usually gets a lot
> > of winter rain and some heavy frosts...by covering it? My Southern
> > Living Garden Book says it will die to the ground in cold weather and
> > that it is evergreen where there is little or no frost and it is easy to
> > grow from cuttings. I'm wondering if she lets it dye back and covers the
> > plants with some straw or mulch, the roots might survive and grow again
> > next year.
> >
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