Give this holly full sun for the tightest growth
but this hybrid is perhaps the easiest to grow in southern gardens
Native to South America despite the name
One of the hardiest of the rockroses
Found by Mike Creel in Lexington County
Dicliptera suberecta Propagate Give this holly full sunDicliptera suberecta is a member of the acanthus family, Acanthaceae, and hails from the grasslands of Uruguay and Argentina, a heritage that shows in a love of heat, sun, and lean soil. Gardeners know the plant by two names that between them tell the whole story: Uruguayan firecracker plant, for the volley of tubular blooms, and hummingbird plant, for the traffic those blooms draw. The foliage charms first. Soft, velvety, and washed a cool bluish