OK...so I look at it as if it were a cobra ready to strike. I have heard so many "NO WAY can you grow this...no way will it bloom". Ok...maybe so, but I will DO IT.
I am cooler than the coast, at 900' altitude. It is a seedling started by a woman from N. of San Francisco who grew and bloomed them. What are the No-Nos? What are the must-dos? I feel like I am holding a neutron bomb and if I mess up it will detonate. I may have to take it up to the Volcano in the summer...but, what else to do?....
Thanks
Carol
I have been given a B. sanguinea-now what?
Pray. LOL
They love the San Francisco weather Carol. Cool nights. Buy it an air conditioner. I actually had a friend who grew one in Florida and it did great. So you never know for sure.
So who did you get it from? She must live near me. I live in the perfect sang climate.
I hope it does well for you, Carol. I would think that your temps would work well too. Sixties at night should be perfect and the low eighties during the day, if it is located in dappled shade during the hottest temps, should work. I've never had good luck getting one to bloom here, but gosh, 90's for highs or more and 60's and 70's for lows were just too much heat. It will be interesting to see how it does work for you. Sending lots of luck your way. Keep us updated.
Good luck, Carol. Mine died in the heat of the summer..
The one I have is the only survivor out of five seeds, it is doing well under lights, and I am hoping the Indiana weather will be OK for it, I plan to put it outside as soon as we get out of these 30s temps.
Doris
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You are all so encouraging! Stephanie (the woman who grew them out) seems to think it will do well here... I enjoy pushing the envelope so I will find a really coolish spot with filtered shade...where I planted the Snowbank...she loves it in there.
Carol, about three years ago, I grew one to flowering from seed here in the Bay area.
We had some 100 plus day's during the summer and it didn't like it ,so I moved it into filtered shade and it bloomed in the Fall. Unfortunatly I had to dig it up because it made a scraggly plant and my husband didn't like the looks of it where I had it planted. I have a yellow sang. right now that I got last summer and haven't had one bud on that one. It is about ready to hit the compost pile.