Re: Question about cuphea

It just comes back in the spring. What I meant is that I have never been able to get mulch on it in the fall.
zem
zone 7
West TN
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bonnie Holmes" <holmesbm@usit.net>
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Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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>
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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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