Hardy Gloxinia 'Evita'

Love this plant. Done well for me south of ATL. GA. A little floppy but the overall appearance is rare with the brilliant little tube sha...Read Moreped orange red flowers. It has slowly spread for a few years to be maybe 30 some inches around in a circular patch. They say to keep it dry in the winter and since we get lots of rain in Jan Feb I have kept an inverted kiddy pool over it to keep it dry in the winter. What a trill to be able to grow something in the gloxinia family outdoors!

This is perhaps the plant with which I am most enamored. It survived (somehow) a winter this past year of -11F (not windchill) covered wi...Read Moreth some dry mulch. We are in SE Virginia and hope it will continue to thrive. We first planted it last year, in 2017. It is a gentle spreader and the red bells brighten up the otherwise too green shady areas of a long roadside bed we keep.

Wonderful plant, amazing bright red flowers. Blooms a long time from midsummer till frost. Good in containers and pots, even have some ...Read Morewhich thrive outside in a protected spot along a wall at work, a slightly colder area than where I live just outside of NYC.

I saw this plant at the Raulston Arboretum, blooming heavily in late September. Extremely eye-catching! I'll be hunting down my own pla...Read Morent by spring, I'm sure, although I'm not sure it's completely hardy here in zone 6b. (I can always keep it in a container and move it to the garage to overwinter.