If you are looking to attract hummingbirds into your yard with a low-maintenance, colorful flower, cuphea may be perfect for you. With about 240 species of this flowering shrub to pick from, cuphea ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

If you are thrilled when a hummingbird comes to your feeder, then you will be ecstatic when they come to the plants you have placed in the landscape. Though much of the country has the first cold ...

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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 ...