Have any of you had any great success at growing this plant. I thought is was considered an annual, but in the DG plant database, it's a perennial. I grew an orange one as an annual a couple years ago and it was gorgeous and I fell in love. This past spring I bought another orange, and at the nursery, they told me that they overwintered an orange mimulus in their greenhouse and the plant they had was enormous and just beautiful. I decided that I would do the same this year. But, as luck would have it, I had poor luck with the plant I bought. It kept dying back, and I'd cut it down and it would come back again; finally by the send of summer it looked pretty respectful. Transplanted it into a big hanging planter this fall and brought it into the basement. It was doing great for the first month, but now it's dying again (just some of the branches) the leaves start drooping and dying and the stems turn hard and brown. Now I'm starting to panic, I don't know what I am doing wrong. Any advice out there. I'm having one of those "I wish lived in a zone 10" type days, sigh
Mimulus - Stickey Monkey Flower
Love this plant and grow it every year from seed. It is hardy to - 10 celcius I believe. I have a couple in the house now but don't know if they will survive til spring. They are getting supplemental light. Probably won't bloom til March. They are so easy to start from seed and so easy to save seed from that I haven't bothered before to overwinter. Mine generally grow as large as the pot I have them in permits and pretty darn quickly too. They are generally one of the last seeds we start due to quick growth and are generally blooming well before they go outside.
Ok, I'm convinced. Grow little Monkey Flower from seed, you say. How do you save the seed? You proably have to have more than one plant, huh?
Nope
