Tropicals & Tender Perennials: When should I divide this?, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
I will add my admiration of your plant, and I love it in that spot. I have one I grew from seed and it's in a large pot, multiplying rapidly and sprawling. I had it inside over winter, from the beginning of January it threw up 3 new shoots, I put it outside for summer but it went form very cold to very hot and the new leaves did get quite scorched. No flowers as yet.

I had a vision of a metal frame work in front of your plant, just high enough to stop it from falling over the door. It might save some of that tying back that we hate doing, the plant would also fall more naturally. A dwarf clematis or other climber could be grown up the framework.

I have a ground cover growing on a bank which dies back quite a lot here, in your climate I doubt it would, Delosperma ecklonis latifolia. It is perennial and requires no real maintenance. Lovely bright purple flowers like mini Mesembryanthemum. They also set seed, thay are supposed to like the heat, mine have done really well this year. If happy they can make a huge mound, but keeps low.

This shows the colour best, it's a self set across the path growng in front of the fuchsias by a south wall, it's much bigger than those on the bank. I'm thinking of putting them in other places as ground cover, they grow easily from pieces too.