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How Cardinals Guard runs red carpet for Christmas

Cardinals Guard (Pachystachys coccinea)

🚩 How Cardinals Guard runs red carpet for Christmas⛔️👍

💖 If your garden needs a pop of color, Cardinals Guard (Pachystachys coccinea) is ready to take the spotlight! With its bold, scarlet-red blooms perched atop green cones, this evergreen perennial looks like it's wearing a crown.
💖 Striking Christmas-red flowers emerge from a green cone. Blooms most of the year.
💖 Adds vibrant color and a festive, tropical feel to any space.
💖 Upright, multi-stemmed growth with lush foliage.
💖 Attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, and other pollinators.
💖 Care: Morning sun and afternoon shade (semi-shade preferred). Trim stems to prevent legginess and encourage fresh growth. Perfect for Southern gardens and large containers.

Hibiscus mutabilis Cotton Candy - Mallow Hibiscus

🌸 Why this Hibiscus is changing color?

🌸 Hibiscus mutabilis Cotton Candy - Mallow Hibiscus - is an amazing winter bloomer that chances flower color! It opens pure white than gradually shifts to baby pink to dark pink over three days, much like the Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow plant (Brunfelsia).
🌸 As the blooms age, they take on a rich, deep pink hue, creating a stunning rainbow of colors on the bush all at once.
🌸 Blossoms reach up to 5 inches across!

🌸 When Brunfelsia is in bloom? Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow!

🅱️ Purple-flowered Brunfelsias are at the peak of their bloom right now!
🅱️ Known as Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow for their magical color transformation from purple to lavender to white over three days: B. grandiflora, B. paucifolia, B. australis.
🅱️ Brunfelsias are wonderfully fragrant winter bloomers
🅱️ Perfect flowering shrub for shaded areas
🅱️ Ideal for growing in containers. Compact and graceful growers.

🌸 When Brunfelsia is in bloom? Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow!

🅱️ Purple-flowered Brunfelsias are at the peak of their bloom right now!
🅱️ Known as Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow for their magical color transformation from purple to lavender to white over three days: B. grandiflora, B. paucifolia, B. australis.
🅱️ Brunfelsias are wonderfully fragrant winter bloomers
🅱️ Perfect flowering shrub for shaded areas
🅱️ Ideal for growing in containers. Compact and graceful growers.