Debbieo, you must be reading my mind lately! I'm ordering one. It would be an annual here, too. I'm thinking it would grow quickly enough in a season, as we have a long season, both of us. We seldom have a hard frost until nearly Christmas, I'll bet you're the same. In any case, if it was overwintered it would certainly be big enough next year. At present I overwinter an avocado and lime tree, a huge crown of thorns and various cactus and succulents. What's one more plant?