Hamelia Patens 'Lime Sizzler'
Firebush 'Lime Sizzler'
'Lime Sizzler' Firebush features bright green and yellow foliage with sizzling red-orange flowers from spring throughto autumn. Upright spreader reaching 1.6m tall and wide. Perfect for creating a showy hedgerow or as an accent plant. It thrives in warmer climates and even in temperate ones, as long as the soil remains above freezing. Hamelia patens also makes a lovely flowering indoor Bonsai.
Contributed by @treefrog44
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Full sun to partial shade
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Occasional watering
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Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)
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Moist and free draining
Common name
Firebush 'Lime Sizzler'
Latin name
Hamelia Patens 'Lime Sizzler'
type
Perennial Shrub
family
Rubiaceae
ph
5.0 - 7.0 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Full sun to partial shade
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Frost
Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)
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Soil
Moist and free draining
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Water
Occasional watering
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
full grown dimensions
1.60 M
1.60 M
Hamelia Patens 'Lime Sizzler'
'Lime Sizzler' Firebush features bright green and yellow foliage with sizzling red-orange flowers from spring throughto autumn. Upright spreader reaching 1.6m tall and wide. Perfect for creating a showy hedgerow or as an accent plant. It thrives in warmer climates and even in temperate ones, as long as the soil remains above freezing. Hamelia patens also makes a lovely flowering indoor Bonsai.
Planting young plants
From Early Spring TO Early Spring
Plant young plantsin in average, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Full sun is better for increased flowering. Needs good drainage and does best in high heat. In temperate or cold climates, plant in a container to winter indoors if desired or, grow as an annual.
Propagation by cuttings
From Early Spring TO Mid Spring
Propagate by softwood cuttings in spring. Cleanly cut up to a 10cm long stems, remove lower leaves and pinch the tip out, dip the stem into rooting hormone, fill a container/pot with suitable compost, make holes around the edge of it and plant the cuttings, water in well, cover with a polythene bag and place somewhere warm, lake the bag off twice a week to air the cuttings. Keep the cuttings moist until well rooted.Harden off when well rooted and pot on into individual pots increasing the airing to let the leaves to develop. Remove rotten, dying or dead cuttings regularly
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