Cup Flower 'Purple Robe'

I found a very small plant with 1 purple bloom in my yard when mowing and dug it up. Too pretty to discard so I relocated it to my flow...Read Moreer garden. Did not know it was Purple Robe at the time. It has flourished and now in second year has rewarded me greatly. I love it! Just read it will grow from cuttings. Next year I will have many of these.

I agree that 7B might be too low a rating for this plant. I grew it for several years in a full sun border in the CA mountains with a ve...Read Morery iffy climate where I usually planted for zone 6. Sometimes it got blazing heat, and sometimes cold rain that seemed as though it would never end. Some years had heavy snow cover, and others were bitterly cold. I obviously could not winter it over every year, but the little plant still did very well, blooming over a long season. It did manage to survive some of the milder winters and came back the following spring. I'm going to try it in my OK garden and see if I can manage to keep it going with some winter protection from the ice storms.

Great plant for the heat. I grow it outside in z8b and I have a friend who grows it in 7a so I think the Z rating is too conservative abo...Read Moreve. It is a short lived perennial. I get 2-3 years put of it.But they do seed nicely and I am never without them.

These are fickle in Albuquerque New Mexico 6b-7a. Is my lack of blooms lack of water or toon much shade?