(Cigar Flower, Cigar Plant)

It’s no wonder this tropical subshrub has gained fast popularity as a bedding plant. Drifts of bright orange, tubular flowers cover its branches effortlessly in the hottest months of summer. This interesting tender perennial hails from southern Mexico where it remains evergreen and bushy year round. In North Temperate zones, it is grown as a bedding annual but can be brought indoors to overwinter.

Broad and bushy, cigar plant is covered with small, crisp, medium green leaves with lighter midveins....

(Cigar Flower, Cigar Plant)

It’s no wonder this tropical subshrub has gained fast popularity as a small bedding plant. The compact Matchless cigar flower bears self-cleaning tubular flowers of scarlet (touched with whtie and black) in the hottest months of summer. This interesting tender perennial is native to southern Mexico and Jamaica where it remains evergreen and bushy year round. In colder temperate zones, it is grown as a bedding annual but can be brought indoors to overwinter.

Broad and bushy, cigar plant is covered...

(Cigar Flower, Cigar Plant)

It’s no wonder this tropical subshrub has gained fast popularity as a bedding plant. The compact Matchmaker Pink cigar flower bears self-cleaning tubular flowers of light peachy pink to orange-pink in the hottest months of summer. This interesting tender perennial is native to southern Mexico and Jamaica where it remains evergreen and bushy year round. In colder temperate zones, it is grown as a bedding annual but can be brought indoors to overwinter.

Broad and bushy, cigar plant is covered...

(Cigar Flower, Cigar Plant)

It’s no wonder this tropical subshrub has gained fast popularity as a bedding plant. The compact Matchmaker Scarlet cigar flower bears self-cleaning tubular flowers of red-scarlet in the hottest months of summer. This interesting tender perennial is native to southern Mexico and Jamaica where it remains evergreen and bushy year round. In colder temperate zones, it is grown as a bedding annual but can be brought indoors to overwinter.

Broad and bushy, cigar plant is covered with small, glossy,...

(Cigar Flower, Cigar Plant)

It’s no wonder this tropical subshrub has gained fast popularity as a bedding plant. The compact Matchmaker White cigar flower bears self-cleaning tubular flowers of white to pale yellow in the hottest months of summer. This interesting tender perennial is native to southern Mexico and Jamaica where it remains evergreen and bushy year round. In colder temperate zones, it is grown as a bedding annual but can be brought indoors to overwinter.

Broad and bushy, cigar plant is covered with small,...

(Cigar Flower, Cigar Plant)

The compact cigar flower, 'Petite Peach', bears self-cleaning tubular flowers of deep peach with flushes of orange in the hottest months of summer. This interesting tender perennial is native to southern Mexico and Jamaica where it remains evergreen and bushy year round. In cold temperate zones, it is grown as a bedding annual but can be brought indoors to overwinter.

Broad and bushy, cigar plant is covered with small, glossy, medium green leaves with lighter midveins. Its numerous small and...

(Cigar Flower, Cigar Plant)

It’s no wonder this tropical subshrub has gained fast popularity as a bedding plant. The compact plants in the Matchmaker Series display self-cleaning tubular flowers of pale orange-pink, red or buttery white in the hottest months of summer. These interesting tender perennials hail from southern Mexico and Jamaica where they remain evergreen and bushy year round. In colder temperate zones, they are grown as a bedding annual but can be brought indoors to overwinter.

Broad and bushy, cigar plant...

(Batface, Batface Cuphea)

Batface cuphea is a wonderful, free-flowering tender perennial with vivid red and purple flowers that resemble the face of a bat or Mickey Mouse. It can be effectively grown as an annual in temperate areas during warm summers. In the wild, this heat and drought tolerant plant naturally grows along streambanks in hot locations in Mexico.

The small, smooth green leaves of batface are evergreen to semi-evergreen. When summer temperatures rise, plentiful tubular flowers with frilly, flared red...

(Batface Cuphea)

A hybrid of the subshrub Cuphea llavea and the annual C. procumbens, 'Flamenco Cha Cha' is a short, upright herbaceous perennial with dark yellow-green, evergreen foliage and vivid magenta-violet, purple-faced flowers. The flowers — whose two large upper petals resemble mouse ears — bloom nearly continuously throughout warm weather.

This hybrid appreciates regular watering and well-drained soil. Give it ample sun for heaviest flowering and fullest growth. Whether used as an...

(Batface Cuphea, Flamenco Rumba Batface Cuphea)

A hybrid of the subshrub Cuphea llavea and the annual C. procumbens, 'Flamenco Rumba' is a short, upright herbaceous perennial with dark yellow-green, evergreen foliage and vivid red, purple-faced flowers. The flowers — whose two large upper petals resemble mouse ears — bloom nearly continuously throughout warm weather.

This hybrid appreciates regular watering and well-drained soil. Give it ample sun for heaviest flowering and fullest growth. Whether used as...