Description
Ipomopsis rubra is a showy biennial species. In the first year it forms a nice ferny-looking rosette and spends the winter as such.
In the second year, the shows starts with tall flowering stems bearing myriads of bright, tubular scarlet flowers: a magnet for the pollinators and hummingbirds!
It will self-seed in favourable conditions.
It is winter hardy in SW Ontario in most years; probably the fact that the mother plant came from the same region has an influence.
Germination: warm germinator (if it doesn’t germinate in 2-3 weeks, provide a cold period). Again, biennial so you may need to resow it. If sown too early in the season it is possible to flower (poorly) very late in the fall of the first year (which is not desirable).
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