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On Gardening: Estrellita Scarlet stars in the pollinator garden

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Estrellita Little Star firecracker bush came made its debut last year and is seen here with ColorBlaze Torchlight coleus. (Handout/Norman Winter/TNS)

Last year was exciting for The Garden Guy as I became introduced to a plant called Estrellita Little Star. The name is neat to me as Estrellita actually means Little Star. While that might sound redundant it also sounds like a profound introduction: This beautiful flower is Estrellita�. Little Star. It is like Spanish and English celebrating together a wonderful new flower to the gardening world.

Its debut was exciting to me in that the plant, which is known botanically as Bouvardia, is native to Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico and my home state of Texas. How did a native Texas horticulturist, a guy who took graduate taxonomy, not know this plant? I’m not so naïve to think I know all native Texas plants. My Texas A & M taxonomy professor Ed McWilliams would have been the first to concur. But this is a drop-dead gorgeous plant, and it attracts pollinators like bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.





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