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Hardiness: USDA Zone 7b: to -14.9 °C (5 °F) USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2 °C (10 °F) USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 °C (15 °F) USDA Zone 9a: to -6.6 °C (20 °F) USDA Zone 9b: to -3.8 °C (25 °F) USDA Zone 10a: to -1.1 °C (30 °F)
Sun Exposure: Full Sun Sun to Partial Shade Light Shade
Other details: This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds Drought-tolerant; suitable for xeriscaping Suitable for growing in containers
On Apr 29, 2008, csn0315 from Summerdale, AL wrote:
Really cool plant! Developes a huge bulb. Mine is 6 years old and the bulb measures well over 20 inches in diameter. When it starts drooping, cut it off all the way to the bulb. It is a great hummingbird plant. My friend grows his in hanging baskets and hangs them in the garage during the winter. The birds come right up to it.
On Jan 23, 2006, rosemarysims from Crowley, LA (Zone 8b) wrote:
There must be a way to use this hardy, year round blooming plant in the garden that escapes me! It flops - no way do those tall stems stay upright without support, and the flowers are just so cool dangling from the bloom stalk as it swoops off to the horizontal. I can see it in a rock garden drooping gracefully over a low rock wall.... On the coastal plain though, it's sure tough to show it off under Big Sky (finding a rock here is a shocking, unsettling experience), so mine stays in a pot.
The plant is very easy from cuttings and FAST to bloom. Don't feed it, it'll just chuckle at you, and like most of the gesneriads, the stems get too weak with food. It probably would not be the thug that Sinningia tubiflora is in the garden as it seems not to stoloniferize so rabidly, but I haven't tried it there.
It is a self sower, but is not too obnoxious about it.
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