Johns,
Please tell me the secret on those blasted plants.
I saw your picture with you 20' specimens with your lovely wife last year.
I tried them in pots, I tried them in the ground.
They get foliage, if I am very lucky one or two blooms and then the plant goes dormant, dies etc.
I had a red (sanguinea) that was full of foliage 3 weeks ago. Now there is none and I don't know if it is going dormant or dying.
I bought it full and happy 2 months ago.
It is 90+ here. I have high humidity 90+% most of the time.
I have a white bicolor and a pink that were decidious through the winter and now they have as much foliage as the red had 3 weeks ago.
I have tried flowering fertilizer, I have tried Osmocote, I have tried a little water, a lot of water.
The few times I would get blooms, that was a death knell as it would bloom once or twice and then quickly lose all of it's leaves like it was too tired to continue.
I can usually grow just aboout anything but these things elude my abilities and charms.
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!
Tim