Mirabilis longiflora container Needs to be in outdoors

Needs to be in outdoors light

A scrambling deciduous shrub with slender branches bearing dark green leaves and racemes of forsythia-like

freely drained soil

Slender stems bear glaucous green leaves to make a superb evergreen compact little shrub

Flowers start out on short pedicels which then extend

Mirabilis longiflora container Needs to be in outdoorsA touch of the exotic, tropical looks for cold climate gardeners like me here in Canterbury. Mirabilis means astonishing, marvelous and this spectacular flower lives up to its name. Clusters of long, tubular flowers have spreading, white petals and twisting, purple red stamens that extend far beyond the rosy red throat. The sweet fragrance attracts hawk moths for night pollination. A tender perennial that is killed to the ground by frost, but