Anisacanthus Species, Flame Acanthus, Hummingbird Bush, Wright Anisacanth, Wright's Desert Honeysuck

This Flame Acanthus (Hummingbird Plant), along with the Firecracker
Plant (Anisacanthus quadrifidus) has brought bees back to my ...Read Moregarden! I love it! I had planted 2 beds with plants from 'big box' stores which I am told are treated with insecticide - I had not seen a bee for a while. So I planted this other bed with plants from a reputable nursery and now have bees, hummingbirds, & butterflies again! :-) Now I have 30! baby Flame Acanthus potted & in my little hothouse (ready for predicted freeze next week), but am unsure of watering for those babies in pots. They did not look very happy yesterday :-\

I love my anisacanthus! I took some new plants from my grandmother's garden last fall. I wasn't sure they would make it after our freezes...Read More in the winter but within the last week they've gone crazy. I can't wait for them to bloom to bring out the hummingbirds.

This plant isn't showy, but bees, hummingbirds and butterflies love it. Give it plenty of space to spread out...I put mine in a huge (20...Read More") pot in the spring. Since then, the plant has tripled in size, and the roots fill the pot. I'm going to transplant it into a whiskey barrel. Cuttings I took in the Spring are rootbound in qt containers; those will go into the ground

It spread to at least twice the original planting area by 100s of seedlings. I dug it up and threw it out. It seemed invasive to me. Fl...Read Moreowers are very small and not very interesting.

Native desert shrub to Southern New Mexico, Central Southwestern Texas, and Arizona.

Hummingbird Bush is native of Mexico and Texas is a delight for hummingbirds. Its a small, spreading shrub with orangish-red tubular
...Read More> flowers from mid-July or August ( earlier in the southern states,) until frost.

Hummingbird Bush is suited to a wide variety of soils, including poor soils, and is drought and heat tolerant.

I purchased three little ones last spring so now in their second year they are 3' X 3'. Hummingbirds do love them. They get watered when it rains.

I love this plant! I planted it in the fall from a little 4 inch pot. When it grew back in the spring, it was huge. It grew to about a...Read More 6 foot spread by 3 feet tall. I was also pleasently suprised to look out my window one day to see a hummingbird feeding on it.

It did produce at least 1 new plant the following fall which I dug up and planted in another part of the garden.

I love this plant, and so do the hummingbirds. It blooms all summer even in
part shade, and can take the heat with no problem....Read Morer /> I do not have any trouble with it overpopulating and I would not mind having many of them. They are beautiful and easy to root, blooming through the hottest part of summer.
This plant is endemic to Texas and one of my favorite shrubs.

Every garden should have one Flame acanthus, and only one! Seedlings pop up everywhere in the yard propogated by birds, wind, etc. Hummin...Read Moregbird magnet. Blooms summer through first frost. I never, ever water mine. Do not plant with intentions of containing it to one area.