Tropicals & Tender Perennials: why no replies to my post?????, 1 by

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A few of mine had dieback, but I learned to take advantage of it to make a kind of standart, but with many more flowers, as when you were growing from one Y only. Here come a few examples:

Here is 'Lena'. The top died back one winter, but she grew out four new branches. One the picture, two of the branches is still small, but later that summer they became stronger and more balanced and I got four times as many flowers, than I was supposed to have :)