Moving a plant outdoors into the garden

I got at the flower show Sinningia tubiflora, which is shown all over to be 7b at its minimum, but its in a pot on the windowsill 3' tall. I am thinking about moving it into the ground when the soil is warmer. Your thoughts?

Rob, are you planning to dig it up for holding over this Winter?
If so, you might want to make it easier on yourself by double-potting, but I think it would do quite well outside in your area.

I am planning on leaving it out, as its warm enough here. I thought about the double pot, but decided against it.

I've always wanted to grow this plant as it's so lovely. If you do move yours outside, I would suggest waiting until it warms up some. I'm assuming you have a spot with excellent, even slightly sharp drainage and full sun. I'm trying again this year with some hardy gloxinias.

I bought it thinking it was a normal caucidiform succulent for the pot. Wrong. Now I am fascinated to have caudexes in my outdoor garden, too.

I hope it does well for you! Maybe planted underneath an overhang to protect from rain in the winter?

I am not sure that it needs to be kept dry for the winter, it just could be.

I believe you need to treat it the same way as your Dranunculus vulgaris. It likes heat and plenty of sun, but no wet winter feet. Rot, it will.

And so you have to be the plant genus of us all. Good grief Yoda everywhere. But what aboot all the images on the net of people with fields of them? Wha!

Nobody has the rainshadow + clay like we do . . .

in the GPNW some of us have "clay" some sand, gravel, "hardpan" and some a mixture of everything, called fill soils.

Some yards drain little at all. some drain too much, on the order of 10,000 inches an hour.

But for some reason, D. vulgaris is my PIA. I saw it at Dragonfly as an understory, not in full sun at all. It prefers shade I understand.

Oh, I didn't mean to imply that Drununculs V. should be in the sun. Only that it needs to be dry in the winter and have good drainage.
Is this the plant we are talking about?
http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog/Current/Detail/04688.html
http://www.anniesannuals.com/signs/s/sinningia_tubiflora.htm

I better make sure I know the right plant, here.

Dragonfly has D. vulgaris planted in drifts? Cool! I would love to see that. Somehow I missed it. Probably there at the wrong season or something. Do you have a photo?

You know, I was assuming that since D. vulgaris is from the mediterranean region, it would prefer dryer conditions..but apparently around here it's pretty easy going. I like this website:
http://www.paghat.com/voodoolily.html

Okay, I am going to bed. The more I talk about voodoo lilies and look at photos of them, the more I want to grow them and that is a bad sign.

Yes Plant delights and annies have the same plant I want to get outside and they seem to be perinnals that don't need to be brougnt in. Paghat drives me crazy with how simple D vulgaris is. I seem to have killed more than I care to.

I think Rob was talking about the drifts he sees in the Internet photos. Karen at Dragonfly was telling him why his wasn't living.

I posted reference to Paghat on the other thread. You might email her and see if she still has it and if so, what she's done to take care of it. She's always responded to me.

I seem to be able to kill things that other people can grow easily. I think that happens for everyone. Sort of like 'one man's trash is another man's treasure', only in gardening.

Do you grow A. bulbifer? I was going to plant mine out today and then couldn't decide where to put them. If you have them, how big do yours grow and where do you have them? I only want to plant them once, since I have to plant in gravel. What a pain in the $$%.

I love paghat's site. It's so informative.

Yes, I understood Rob's post about Karen, but I thought he posted that he saw drifts of D. vulgaris at dragonfly? I'm confused, Rob. Please clarify. I looked at Dragonfly's site, but didn't see any photos of D. vulgaris.

Ask Karen and she will show you her D. vulgaris. Growing happily under rhodies.