Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Clerodendrum quadriloculare, 0 by TrixieM

TrixieM wrote:
I'm so surprised that anyone has trouble with speciosissimum. I'm in zone 8 and it behaves very nicely here. It is also one that I enjoy sharing with other people, and there are lots of people who want it.

However, if I could trade having my speciosissimum behave for living where it's a problem because it never freezes, I'd trade in a New York second.

I finally got rid of clero ugandense. It freezes down here but comes back huge, and I just found out it makes lovely cut flowers. However we have lots of very high winds and its stalks are brittle. I always had broken stalks, which made the plant ugly.

I love the Peanut Butter Shrub, Clerodendrum Trichotomum, with its lovely pink flowers followed by magenta bracts and bright blue berries. And although Bungei suckers like crazy, I enjoy the flowers (as do the butterflies) and mow the rest of them down.

I'm working on getting quadriloculare to bloom, too. My big one froze in the ground and might not come back, but I have babies in the greenhouse to try again later. Maybe next year........

Kay

This message was edited Jan 28, 2007 9:19 PM

This message was edited Jan 28, 2007 9:21 PM