Chelle

I see this photo is yours , just wondering if you would share info , do you still have it ?
Do you sit it out in the summer? or does it go dormant in the winter ? size pot ? Does it flower for you?

Curious mind
Cinda

Hi, Cinda.

I didn't bring this plant in last winter, so it's gone. I'm guessing I had it in a three gallon pot, as it was a good-sized plant. Mine did not flower for me, but it was a pretty easy keeper in dry, heated indoor conditions. Growth slowed indoors in lower light, but the plant didn't go entirely dormant.

Thanks for the info .It is an interesting looking plant .

I should take another picture of mine, it's probably 7-8 ft. tall now.

Oh, I bet it's just gorgeous now, Sue! It was already a very nice plant April of last year.

I find this plant hardy, having come through two snowy winters. A frost will cut it to the ground but it comes up again in the spring. It may be better with some shelter under a canopy of trees in a south facing bed, though I have it in both North facing and South facing beds opposite each other.

Left in the ground and not cut back by the frost, it will make a plant of about eight feet with flower spikes about twelve to fourteen feet from the ground to the top, that is , if it has to reach for the light.

Each flower spike should give up about twenty seeds, though they have little seed capsules that make you think you are going to get a couple of hundred. I don't know if it is because the seeds don't set easily, or because the insects over here don't know what the plant is?

Peter

It's a fabulous plant, mine gets somewhat shaded in the afternoon.
I love your multi-plant image of it with a fabulous mix of plants Peter! How are your seedlings doing?

I must add another photo of the seedlings. I got 21 seedlings from 23 seeds that were four years old. I have distributed 10 already to gardening friends, and have five allocated for a great gardener here called Jimi Blake ( and his sister has a garden near by , she is called June Blake). I have about another 50 or 70 seeds, so I may grow them in spring for the charities and for the garden society.

I was amazed how well they came up.

Many thanks for the acorns, that was great of you.

Kind regards,

Peter

Good to know how viable they can be!