Bouvardia ternifolia Richard Lynch Camellia rosaeflora is a graceful

Camellia rosaeflora is a graceful species camellia from China

shrugging off frost and cold that would cut down more tender kin

'Winter's Hope'

where the upright evergreen frame holds the year and the bright pink flowers light the cool months against dark

and holds a compact shape once established

Bouvardia ternifolia Richard Lynch Camellia rosaeflora is a gracefulBouvardia ternifolia, the firecracker bush, is a compact, heat loving shrub of the southwestern United States and Mexico, hung from late spring to frost with clusters of long, slender, scarlet red tubular flowers. Few plants pull hummingbirds in like this one: the bright tubes are pitched exactly for their bills, and the bloom keeps coming through the hottest months when little else holds color. Whorls of narrow leaves clothe a tidy, two to three foot