Roldana Species, Butterbur Ragwort, California Geranium, Velvet Groundsel

Like the other poster...I once decided to cut mine back to the ground so as to make my yard look larger. It wasn't cut down 5 minutes tha...Read Moret I realized I missed it...what a mistake. And like her's it did grow right back. I've never done that again.

I have grown a few cloudforest species over the years..Bocconia,Senecio crista,balensis, Wigandia,Bartletinia...and many more. Senecio petasitis outlived them all and was easiest of all to care for. Unlike some,it has also taken well to being dug up and moved...doing that to Bocconia was death.
Just a great cloudforest plant..try it.

Oh, I do so love this beautiful plant. Last summer, my landlord's father came over while I was out to "help clean up the yard" and he cu...Read Moret down the plant pictured above, all the way to the ground. It was GONE! (I started crying when I saw what he had done and started screaming at him; it's amazing I didn't get evicted! Now they think I'm a madwoman and they don't come near the place ;->). It's now spring, 8 months after the massacre, and the plant is back to the same size pictured here, about 5-6 feet high, and in full bloom! It's sister, which I managed to save, is now about 10 feet high and about 8 feet wide, and gorgeous!