Guara question

[andrea922]

Does anyone know why I am not seeing any new growth on my guara plants?

I cut them back in the fall. Is it too early---does it emerge later than other perennials?

[MaineDesigner]

Gaura tends to be a very short lived perennial. It seems to like hot, dry, sharply-drained conditions. It is native to parts of Texas and Louisiana.

[Pineville]

Treat it like an annual- winters are too wet in the Northeast for Gaura.

[andrea922]

But at my old house it came back every year??

[MaineDesigner]

Andrea, I think you were just lucky at your old house or perhaps the drainage was better. At the longest I've seen gaura last three or maybe four seasons in the north but IME you can never depend on it to be reliably perennial.