Justicia brandegeana bundle 'Splendida' wants sun and sharp

'Splendida' wants sun and sharp drainage

Few native trees are so generous to wildlife

and the habit is close enough to the old variety 'Croonenburg' that the two may be one and the same

Growing this uncommon native also helps keep a remarkable piece of the American forest in cultivation

Justicia brandegeana bundle 'Splendida' wants sun and sharpJusticia brandegeana, the shrimp plant, is a subtropical evergreen shrub from Mexico, grown the world over for the curious, shrimp like flower spikes that give the plant its name: arching, overlapping bracts in warm coppery orange, salmon, and rust, from which small white flowers peek like a shrimp's legs. The bracts hold their color for weeks, so a well grown plant seems always in bloom. Blooming is the point, and the shrimp plant blooms without