Hummingbirds love Cuphea Hummingbird’s Lunch! Cuphea, also known as firecracker plant and cigar plant, loves sunshine, heat, and dry locations. Produces a compact, rounded shrub smothered in tubular (cigar-shaped) cherry-red (like a firecracker) flowers with apricot tips. The flowers are full of the nectar hummingbirds find irresistible, but butterflies and bees like them, too. Cuphea Hummingbird’s Lunch is long blooming, so it’ll keep ’em coming from early spring until fall. Plant in full sun, in a warm, protected garden spot. Photo and text courtesy of Wayside Gardens.
Cuphea ‘Hummingbird’s Lunch’
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Hummingbirds love Cuphea Hummingbird’s Lunch! Cuphea, also known as firecracker plant and cigar plant, loves sunshine, heat, and dry locations. Produces a compact, rounded shrub smothered in tubular (cigar-shaped) cherry-red (like a firecracker) flowers with apricot tips. The flowers are full of the nectar hummingbirds find irresistible, but butterflies and bees like them, too. Cuphea Hummingbird’s Lunch is long blooming, so it’ll keep ’em coming from early spring until fall. Plant in full sun, in a warm, protected garden spot. Photo and text courtesy of Wayside Gardens.
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