USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7b-11  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Perennial Shrub

Flower Color:  Red and Yellow bicolor

Flower Size:  2" 

Flowering Period:  Late Spring or Early Summer to Frost!

Flower Type:  Single, lantern-like

Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color:  Green

Fragrant Foliage:  No 

Berries:  -

Berry Color:  -

Attracts:  Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Pollinators, Visual Attention

Resistances:  Cold Temperatures (10F), Deer, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit

A fantastic hardy subtropical shrub from the temperature regions of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, the Brazilian Bellfllower is easy to grow and thrives year round outdoors in the ground in USDA Zones 7b-11, which means it will handle cold temperatures to 10F. That said, when growing in pots it might only be cold hardy outdoors to Zone 8b and should be overwintered indoors when temperatures drop below 25F. A plant the hummingbirds, butterflies and other beneficial pollinators will thank you for planting, from late spring or early summer all the way to frost it produces very cool looking, downward hanging 2-inch long flowers with a lantern-like dark red calyx from which emerge bright yellow petals. Here in the states it forms a spreading round mound clothed in green maple-like leaves usually seen at 4 to 6 feet tall and equally as wide when growing in the ground, and maybe half that size in containers. Its stems can be cut back to near the ground annually in early spring to maintain a smaller size plant. Easy to grow in most any soil of moist but well-drained to somewhat dry soil of average fertility and full sun to part shade, though flowering is heavier with more sun and moisture during the warm seasons. Sure to be a conversation piece!