When I ordered wildflower seeds year before last Tricia asked me to be sure to include standing cypress. I added them to the mix I sowed where I hope to start a little wildflower prairie and also scattered a few alongside our drive. They are one of the few wildflowers that have succeeded well in our “prairie” but they actually look better along the drive where they are in clusters instead of being single stalks in a sea of grass.
The blooms start opening at the tip and travel down the stalk. They are just past their peak now. The hot dry winds we’ve had all week are having their effect.
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Very nice. Were they hard to grow from seed? I like the fiery color during this hellish days.
Very easy to grow. Did better than any of the other seeds I planted.
We’ve seen Standing Cypress up close on the pond tours and learned about them being biennial. One of the pond owners started with a small clump and kept spreading the seeds around until he had an enormous swath.
Tricia was wise and your flowers were sure worth the wait - how lovely, Bill!
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
I hope they spread
Hummingbirds LOVE these plants.
that seems logical, but I did not notice any around it.
This is a new one to me…is it a Texas native that would totally hate it in the middle south? Incredible color…
Looks like the range extends into Tennessee - http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=IPRU2
Nice! It looks like something hummingbirds would like.
Gail - I grew them as an annual in Michigan and they did fine. (zone 5, summers between 78-93 degrees, humidity averaging around 60 and hitting as high as 86…)
I’d say give them a try.
I’ve still not had any luck with the wildflower seeds I have sown about Roundrock, but I’m hopeful.
Wow, PURRTY!! I have never seen those. We have something Similar called fire weed, that blooms from the top down, but it is purple, and when it is all bloomed out, it snows! In Alaska.