Texas Gardening: Bat-faced cuphea, 1 by dmj1218

dmj1218 wrote:
I have to agree with Taylor about them being indicator plants. I have a huge stand of cuphea micropetala in the ground I've had for 5 years. When they wilt...the rest of the garden always needs watering. Maybe they are drought tolerant in, um, let's say Ohio; but definitely not in Houston. I would have surely lost them in last summers drought if I hadn't have 'flooded' them with the water hose once a weeks. These pics were taken in January. But we didn't have much of a winter.