Beginner Gardening: What Was Your Mistake of the Year?, 1 by jkom51

jkom51 wrote:
frogsrus, I am so jealous of your plectranthus -- I planted one about that size and it grew into a beautiful 2x3' specimen. Then the cold winter winds hit and it literally melted, just like the Wicked Witch of the East in Oz! We get very few frost days up here in Northern CA but those cold winds are almost as bad for the frost-tender perennials.

I do have some plectranthus elsewhere in more sheltered spots that are doing fine, but I miss that beauty in the front yard! Here's a picture of it a few months before it died: