Mexican Cigar Plant
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Mexican Cigar Plant

Cuphea ignea

RHS Award of Garden Merit

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Supplied as compost block grown plants.

So named because the orange red tubular flowers with their ashen end look like tiny lit cigars.

Whilst perennial, it is frost tender so either needs to be grown in the garden as an annual where it will flower almost continually until the first frosts knock it down - or lifted from the garden and grown on as a houseplant for the Winter where it will continue to flower and please.

In the garden border it can easily produce a shrubby plant up to 3 feet tall within a couple of months. In a container or pot it can be pruned and maintained at around 8" tall or more.

Can easily be propagated from cuttings or by saving seed.

Prefers a well drained soil - and once established will tolerate drought conditions.
Thrives in full sun.
Bees and other beneficial insects absolutely love the flowers of Cigar plants.

Supplied as compost block grown plants.

For a little more in depth information on Mexican Cigar Plant you may find the following article of great use...
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