Copper plants are great foliage plants for the summer and fall landscape.
When planted in spring, these beautiful tropical-looking small shrubs turn into fabulous accent plants in color beds as we get later in to the growing season. They prefer long, hot days.
One of the old common copper plant varieties in Louisiana is called Louisiana Red. It has red foliage on a 5-foot-tall plant. Other varieties have bronze, green, yellow, bicolored and tricolored appearances. Heights vary from 2-6 feet at maturity in the fall.
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