Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Candletree/bush (Cassia Alata) advice, 1 by debnes_dfw_tx

debnes_dfw_tx wrote:
About 10 years ago I fell in love with this one. My sister-in-law used to grow them every year across her huge lawn and they bloomed so beautifully. She always had a few extra seedlings she shared with me then, and the year we moved in this house I had one that also bloomed and truly stopped traffic. Since then she moved from there and wasn't able to grow them as she did.
I have had to get them from nurseries around town, but they weren't available until April. They would get fairly tall in a season, (about 8 ft.) and would not bloom by frost time. I kept trying again and again, and called various horticulturist for advice, however not many of them were experienced enough to yield anything helpful for making them bloom.
This year I have two of them, now about 6-8 ft tall, and no signs of budding yet. With the chill in the air this morning, once again I have this funny feeling coming back to me... oO will they bloom? or will they not?
Is there anything I can do now? Not much time left.
I would be so grateful for any help I can get here.

~Debnes
Here is a stitched together photo showing both plants:

This message was edited Sep 18, 2006 8:45 AM