Cuphea cyanea Ashevilla Chocolate Garden The flowers are followed by

The flowers are followed by 1' tall spikes with small clusters of blue berries

The stalks of huge black seed pods extend the season of interest into summer

sometimes reaching 4" wide

vertically-striped

Cuphea cyanea Ashevilla Chocolate Garden The flowers are followed byCuphea cyanea is one of those plants that simply shouldn't have any winter hardiness, but that's one of the lovely things about plants not being able to read. Hailing from the southern Mexican states of Chiapas and Oaxaca, I was astounded upon seeing it in the Asheville, NC garden of Jasmin and Peter Gentling, where it made a reliable perennial. Shared cuttings have thrived in our garden trials since 2013, so in 2018, it became a Plant Delights JLBG