Lantana camara 'Hybrida' Medicinal so 'Woodland Ruby' takes more

so 'Woodland Ruby' takes more light than the shade-bound Florida anise as long as the roots stay moist

well-drained soil mulched with pine needles

moist soil in part shade

holding their color and structure through the year

The result proved as resilient as it is lovely: a shrub that blooms through Southern winters with upright rose-pink flowers rising like lit tapers in the grey season

Lantana camara 'Hybrida' Medicinal so 'Woodland Ruby' takes moreFew tender shrubs work as hard for as long as the lantanas, and Lantana camara 'Hybrida' distills the whole genus down to a single clear note of yellow. The species belongs to the verbena family, Verbenaceae, and hails from the West Indies and the warm reaches of Mexico south through tropical America, where the plant scrambles along roadsides and clearings in a haze of nectar and butterflies. The genus name is a borrowed one: Renaissance botanists