This Sun flower bush, Bahiopsis laciniata does well along the coast and inland. It likes the chapparal region and grows through most of the summer. Once the first blooms have matured and gone to seed, trim off the dry seed clusters, collect them or throw them around you garden to feed the wildlife and sprout in other areas in your garden. After we trim ours we give them a good watering and water them about once a week in the hottest months and they keep blooming for us. Their branches do get long and leggy, so sometime in the season it's good to trim them back a bit. You can also trim them back in the fall or winter. If you don't water them in late summer they will go dormant and spring back to life after the first rain of the season.

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