Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Cassia Plant question ...., 0 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
I have a question about my Privet Cassia tree. My tree was growing like a weed last year during the summer when I first found it mysteriously growing among other plants in a container. It has since bloomed and put out seed pods 3 times. It is currently blooming and producing seeds for the third time. I saw a Sulphur butterfly laying eggs on it about a month ago, but never saw any cats on it ..... until today. I found one BIG yellow Sulpur Cat eating the blooms.

My question is .......... I pruned it back and it has not grown any bigger. It's almost like it has stunted growth or something. I am planning to transplant it into a bigger container. I don't think that it is root-bound though. (I can't tell for sure, so it could be.) Has anyone else had any experience like this with cassia? I can't figure out why the branches are NOT growing and sprouting out more. Where I whacked it back, it's stayed just that size. It's weird. Never had a plant behave this well. I am sure that this is NOT normal.