Justicia brandegeana bundle 'Splendida' wants sun and sharp

'Splendida' wants sun and sharp drainage

Whorls of narrow leaves clothe a tidy

Now becoming more widely available

Few native trees are so generous to wildlife

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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