What in the *&^%$^%& they want! Sorry for the foul language, but I'm really confounded. And why are the leaves sometimes almost variegated, and sometimes not?
I've heard of overwintering them bare-root, but they seem like very thirsty plants. I see them blooming in other people's pots when it's 95° but every time I've put one out in the sun, it shrivels up. I make myself feel better by assuming they are just fake.
When offered what seems to be like a run of consistency over a few months, plants do not behave consistently. I might even call them moody.
BUT staying alive has been a great step forward. ...and a few months at a time is all the more consistency I can offer before there's a drastic change for the next few months. It's just weird that a change in conditions isn't what seems to result in a change in attitude. There's probably a huge gulf between what I perceive as consistency vs what a plant might experience as consistency. I'm leaving the roots in ground and just keeping cuttings. Probably will just result in enriching the soil, but who knows. Unpredictable plants are more interesting, from a clinical standpoint. Some plants get boring to me after too much predictable behavior.