Mexican Heather Landscape Ideas
Grow clumps of mexican heather together around the border of your flower garden.
Mexican heather landscape ideas. Plant mexican heather around a tropical garden filled with tall large leaved plants. Mexican heather blooms all year long full sun. This mexican heather plant is shown planted in full sun to partial shade in a well draining mulched bed that helps hold moisture but ensures that the plant does not sit in water. How to use it.
How to landscape a border with mexican heather 1. You may want to plant mexican heather in slightly shaded places in very warm climates to prevent the blooms and foliage from fading. In zones 7 and 8 mexican heather acts like a perennial. Mexican heather plants are shrubs that grows in tropical areas and acts like an evergreen.
This plant often thrives in the hot humid weather than can be problematic for many other plants. In colder zones it acts like an annual. Plant the limelight variety. Plant mexican heather in full sun to areas with light shade.
Photograph by morgan satterfield. In frost free zones mexican heather makes a wonderful evergreen groundcover and provides non stop bloom in borders foundation plantings and containers. A sunken verdant courtyard for a seattle home on a slope. In usda zones 7 and 8 treat it like a perennial for spring to fall interest in beds and borders.
Mexican heather looks attractive.