That was a great idea to train it! Yup, much loved!

Very pretty - It's a Texas native and I have several in my Ft. Worth hummingbird/butterfly garden. For those of you who live in the South or Southwest, it's one of the few natives that will flower in part shade down here...very useful! It's also sold at the big box retailers here, which is great because more people will get to know this hardy native plant.

Up north in CT, mine gets only an hour of sun per day and blooms profusely. Shade tolerance also makes this an easy plant to care for indoors -- just cut it back to make it neat and place near a window.

My husband & I moved to Texas a few years ago. Can't wait to try it this year as we have found that we cannot grow a lot of plants that we grew in N.C. The heat & soil where we live in our neighborhood are so different. One of our neighbor's said she could grow her Butterfly Shrubs several blocks away but cannot grow them here in our neighborhood. Evidently the developer of this land trucked in a lot of sand before building our houses 50-60 years ago. About 2 feet down is just sand. We have amended many area's but in drought all the plants suffer in this heat. But love the picture's & idea's of training the Turk's Cap. Great picture's.