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Justicia brandegeeana |
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| | Going strong in early November |
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| | Woody top growth killed by freeze, but new leaves emerging from the base |
| Common name |
shrimp plant |
| Family |
acanthaceae |
| Life cycle |
tender perennial (Z8-11)   |
| Flowers |
salmon red (summer-fall) |
| Size |
3-5' |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
| Cultural notes |
fertile, well drained soil, not too dry |
Showy perennial from Mexico, grown for its free-flowering habit. The muted red flowers appear almost year-round on twiggy lax stems that grow to five feet tall, and are popular with butterflies and other pollinators. Pruning can help to give the plants a bushier appearance, and to keep the flowers coming. May be killed to the ground by a hard freeze, but returns in spring in Houston's climate. It does wait much longer to start blooming again when that happens, but is back in form by mid-summer. We bought our plant as an awkward nursery item trained vertically on a few bamboo poles – it was much nicer the next year, when it returned from the ground as a naturally shaped plant.
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following areas: back fence border, houston front yard, right-fence nursery area About my plant portraits
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