I am having very good success with this plant here in 10b, but before I start specifying it I am wondering if anyone from 9 or even 8 has tried it? P. selloum will be fine to about 28° and I wonder if BM is the same?
By the way, the BM here is in a large bed of about 50 plants. Half of the bed gets full western sun, and half of it is shaded most of the time. There are no morphological differences in the plants.
–Michael
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nobody?
this is one great plant! I thought more people would have been using it.
Michael
It looks like a great ground cover. I'm in N.Ca zone 9 its pretty dry here in the summer so don't know how it would do. I can't remember seeing it here.
Linda
This message was edited Aug 9, 2007 10:40 AM
Nice looking plant, don't know that I've seen it even offered here or grown here.
Nice Plants! I would love to try the Burle Marx but don't know if it would survive the winters here in 9a. We've had the Selloum in our yard for 32 years and we have had hard freezes in past years that knock it down but in spring it comes right back! So, I know the Selloum is pretty hardy ....
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msadesign -
Do you give any special attention to the ones planted in sun? Your plants are awesome, I would love to find some. I have limited shade at this time, but have sun and partial shade areas.
I'm wondering how the Burle Marx would do as a houseplant? I have a few Philo's that stay out on my back deck during the spring/summer/fall but when we have real cold weather in the winter they get moved inside. Does anyone grow the BM as a houseplant? Would it do okay inside for awhile as long as it got bright light?
Hi All,
Here in south Florida it is available in the trades as a common shrub. I'm using it in a mass so I suppose you could call that a 'groundcover' [this is a term I don't like to use as it really just means a short shrub].
The plant gets about 24" tall. I don't do anything different to the ones in the sun; they are all under irrigation and are growing in an amended but alkaline soil.
I think they would be lovely indoors. And, I think they could be fine in 9. I know from personal experience that P. selloum will tolerate 27° as long as there is no frost and the plants will not brown; in my view if the plant goes back to the ground that's not exactly tolerating the temperature. To me the plant has to has no change in appearance after the weather event. And I think this one could take the same as selloum and probably better.
All in all it is a superior plant and I am specifying thousands of them here in Lee and Collier County. It would be interesting to see how they do in 9 this winter.
Michael
