To refresh your memory, here was your clue to Mystery Plant #2:
Ok, I didn’t give you much to go on here. Similar to Mystery Plant #1, This plant does not tolerate cold very well. Let’s cut to the chase:
This is a Lime Sizzler Firebush (Hamelia patens ‘Grelmsiz’) , which is a patented variety sold by Garden Debut. Apparently it’s illegal to grow this plant from cuttings, because it’s a patented cultivar. I bought two of these at Calloway’s Nursery here in Fort Worth and, before last winter, I thought I would buy a bunch more. The plants were both growing so nicely, fast, with little fuss, and were certainly what you’d call “specimen” plants. But when a frost hit it was if someone threw a pail of battery acid all over the poor things. After each frost of our fairly mild winter they bounced back. That is, until the big freeze around Valentine’s Day of this year. One of my two Firebushes didn’t make it and it was one of the few plants that didn’t survive the Storm of the Century. I wouldn’t buy these again unless I could keep it in a green house or in a pot that could easily be moved inside when it gets cold.
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