| Positive | wallaby1 | On Dec 5, 2005, wallaby1 from Lincoln
United Kingdom (Zone 8a) wrote:I have grown this plant from a small starter plant bought from Grenville Nursery, UK. It is quick growing, and perhaps a little hardier than some. They can tolerate dryness, and prefer a fairly sunny locaton. I planted mine in the ground (sandy soil) a year ago when grown to a good size in 4-5 years, it was kept in a cold greenhouse over winter prior to that.
Flowers at a fairly early age, ruby red, double, crumpled papery looking flowers with a black eye smother the bush. Seed pods are quite large, very hard, and stay on the bush from one year to the next before they mature, and possibly in nature would rely on extreme heat to burst them. Inside the pods are many tiny, thin seeds. |
