Lobelia cardinalis 3a narrow green leaves

narrow green leaves

a hummingbird favorite

If you continue to plant in your shade garden throughout the fall and winter

This hybrid butterfly bush from The Netherlands' Boskoop Experimental Station is absolutely one of the finest pink flowered cultivars on the market

since ice plants love gravelly soils

Lobelia cardinalis 3a narrow green leavesLobelia cardinalis is an easy to grow, North American native perennial whose native range includes 41 of the 50 states, absent only in the far northwest quadrant. Cardinal flower emerges from a flat winter rosette to produce a 4' 5' stalk (height varies with soil moisture), topped with bright red tubular flowers beginning in late summer and continuing into fall always a favorite of hummingbirds. While it prefers an acidic moist soil, it is amazingly