The Bloom of the Day for February 2nd, 2011 was Flowering Maple 'Magic Lantern' (Abutilon ).
View the bloom of the day here: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/botd.php?date=2011-02-02
February 2nd, 2011: Flowering Maple 'Magic Lantern' (Abutilon ) by butterflybyro
Beautiful Bells!
Gorgeous, very nice photo.
I grow a lot of these. They bloom all year long, hummers love them, and they are so easy! Only negative I have found is they do get scale though and do have to be pruned hard or they get huge. Oh, snails just love them! I have seen old ones them trained into small trees with fat trunks and they are so cool like this.
Oh I ♥ it!! Hmmmmmm... Wonder if they would grow here in Phoenix?