wow! I never knew

... there were so many of these flowers! How cool!!

I want to start a few from cuttings... but before I cut.. any words of wisdome... how to cut right.. kind of soil to help the roots... ?

I used to have lots of red ones... but a flood killed them all ... there were under water too long and the roots got rotted out... then Hurricane charley finished them all off :(

my rooting efforts have yielded results in the spring and fall. Too hot now, IMO. But maybe if you bring indoors and keep a close eye on them, you can get them to take. I use good potting soil, dip in rooting hormone and keep watered. Semi-green cutting, removing all the leaves so no energy is spent feeding leaves but rather producing roots.

I don't think it is rocket science, but I do think it is a numbers game, so if you can, start as many cuttings as you can, all in the same container. As they develop you can transplant to small individual pots. You're bound to lose many but if 1-2 take, great. If ALL take, then you've got yourself a trading stash!

cool! Thanks!

There are too many! LOL I am going broke fast.

Thanks to our beautiful addiction we may all be destitute when we go but we will all die smiling.

(At least that is what I tell myself when I am about to fall off the wheelbarrow and buy another plant.)

lol....I want to get into grafting someday... but i'm going to start with rooting... I know some of these plants are very open to anything!

Before the hurricanes every year... we used to put them off and stick them in the ground... and they would grow easy... but not now.