Plant in full sun to light shade. Water occasionally in hotter climates but requires little irrigation in coastal gardens, especially if in part sun. This plant has proven hardy and evergreen at least down to 15° F and in colder locations down to 5° F., where it can resprout from its base. This nice dense growing shrub provides nearly year-round color and it an absolute hummingbird magnet.

Cuphea 'David Verity' is presumed to be a hybrid between Cuphea ignea and Cuphea micropetala. It was a plant given to David Verity, then the manager of the UCLA Mildred Mathias Botanic Garden, in the mid 1970's by a gardening friend who had found it growing in their garden in Los Angeles. It eventually made its way to San Diego area horticulturist and nurseryman Steve Brigham in 1976 and was named by him when he published the name in the 1984 Kartuz Nursery catalog. We received our plant from Buena Creek Gardens, Steve Brighams's nursery in San Marcos, CA in 1988 and our garden plant grew to over 5 feet tall with an equal width. Steve notes that this plant "takes sun or shade and even drought and heat ... it's an evergreen and everblooming shrub that I have long claimed to be the most popular plant with hummingbirds of any plant I've ever grown." 

Information displayed on this page about Cuphea 'David Verity' is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.