This plant does well in zone 11. It is a prolific bloomer from mid-October until April in Arabian Peninsula! The colors are very pale though...I have only seen pale lilac flowers.
I have had these everywhere I have lived in Texas--in Corpus Christi, and in the Rio Grande Valley. They are beautiful, grow to about 10-12' high and always full of bloom in spring, and they repeat bloom all year. They can freeze back, but have never known one to die from cold weather. They will come back from the roots. Have never seen any color except mauve/lavender with a deep purple throat. Everyone I know calls them 'Mexican morning glory' and I always wondered what the botanical name was. When I was a child we played with the seeds and called them 'monkeys.' Nobody ever warned us that they were toxic, but I for one would never put a fuzzy thing like that in my mouth!
Last year I saw one of mine doing something I have never seen before: during a hot dry spell, they started putting out tendrils from the pointed ends of the heart-shaped leaves! and reaching out to a porch support post they were growing close to. Some of the tendrils got to be 1-2' long. Has anyone else seen that?
Chamma, your picture looks exactly like the ones I am familiar with.
I have started these in water, but what usually happens is they start rooting and growing and blooming in the water. Then I leave them for months, because I can't bear to cut them back while they are blooming! So the last ones I started in the ground, and they did very well!
Yes mine is more of a climber~
I have to support it against the wall in my courtyard!
They must have a vining marker in their DNA!
These are beautiful! Mine are more purple, would go take a pic but am still not mobile. If you cut them back, will they bush out more?
Yes!~ I have recently seen them trained as a medium height shrub...Mine is huge...I have it growing against a wall and it has now started to drape on the other side of the wall...It is very dense also!
