This is a very easy plant to grow and very bright with the Hot Pink outlines on the leaves. Full sun brings out the best color. The pla...Read Morent can be quite drought tolerant in the ground as well. Keep trimmed some so that more fresh foliage branches out for color. Have seen it in North Florida waist high. Max would be 2-3' high and 2-3' wide (less in cooler night areas). Plant as a single specimen or a tall edging plant ie dont plant in front of short plants. Flowers are evident in short days but are small and insignificant white balls. Should be easy to root by cuttings. Stick the first internode into the rooting medium and keep in shade till roots are formed an inch long. Grow as an annual anywhere after frost.
Use in a mixed container as the tall Pizzazz plant, but snip to maintain from taking over. Stunning as a single plant in an urn of white or cobalt blue enamel !
This plant also is being sold by Home Depot as Alternanthera Dentata 'Brazilian Red Hots' with a suggested height of 24-36 inches. We bou...Read Moreght some and they already have reached 12 inches after only 3 weeks in the ground and I have no reason to suspect they won't keep growing. Will update in about a month.
This is a very easy plant to grow and very bright with the Hot Pink outlines on the leaves. Full sun brings out the best color. The pla...Read More
This plant also is being sold by Home Depot as Alternanthera Dentata 'Brazilian Red Hots' with a suggested height of 24-36 inches. We bou...Read More