California Gardening: Remember last winter??, 1 by Kell

Kell wrote:
Gosh I forgot I started this thread. I have about 100 threads in my watch folder when I sign on and I just can't seem to keep up with them all.

Lauriegayle you were right, for your plant looks so great now. I used to grow the yellow one and it vined up into the purple flowers of my Tibouchina urvilleana trees but it went too nuts and then I was pulling out seedlings from it for 2 years.

Liz, guess what I found last week!! 4 inch pots of Tibouchina organensis. And since I killed my big one dead, I thought I would try again small and cheaply. LOL

Gee jkom51, I didn't know lantanas came in vines. Are you taking about that light purple one that can grow up into things or be pruned as a hedge or scamper along the ground? My lantana in pots came back fast. I thought they were goners too.

Have you looked at Regan's for a new Japanese maple? They always have some great ones. What a shame what you loved so much died. It is odd though as it didn't get that cold here.

Oh JasperDale, that is so sad your espaliered Voodoo fuchsia bit the dust. All that love and work!

jltbaw you are so lucky your brugs came back. They may send up a sucker and then you once again can have a standard. I lost so many and was so shocked they did not come back. I can only think I had no nodes under the ground so they had no where to sprout from.

Gosh tropicalgaza, I want to come live in Culver City. I just love the Jade Vine. Do you have pics posted of your heliconias? I just saw a huge clump in Oakland and I thought I need to try those. And immediately after I went to a nursery and there was a heliconia!! I rarely see them around here for sale. So I took that as a OK from God, well actually as a command from God and had to get it.

By by any chance do you know the name of this one?
Thanks