Bouvardia ternifolia Richard Lynch where the upright evergreen frame

where the upright evergreen frame holds the year and the bright pink flowers light the cool months against dark

and holds a compact shape once established

The willow-like leaves

a hot bank

Set this narrow-leaved aucuba in part to full shade in good

Bouvardia ternifolia Richard Lynch where the upright evergreen frameBouvardia ternifolia, the firecracker bush, is a compact, heat loving shrub of the southwestern United States and Mexico, hung from late spring to frost with clusters of long, slender, scarlet red tubular flowers. Few plants pull hummingbirds in like this one: the bright tubes are pitched exactly for their bills, and the bloom keeps coming through the hottest months when little else holds color. Whorls of narrow leaves clothe a tidy, two to three foot