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Pam Moore writes:
| I have a Tibouchina which has flowered well over the last 3 or 4
| weeks. However it is an ungainly thing, about 30 inches high with
| bare, woody stem to 20 inches, but healthy, leafy growth above. When
| I was given it, it was about 8 inches with 2 shoots above soil level.
| A friend suggested taking a cutting of one shoot. This I tried but
| the cutting didn't root.
| Has anyone grown Tibouchina?

Yes.

| Please can you tell me what to do with it now. Is there any chance
| of it sprouting lower down?

Not in my experience.

| It's in a light place in my living room with other house plants. I'd
| like to get it through the winter and put it outside for next summer.
| (No greenhouse).

Keep it well ventilated, not too wet but not dry and light, and
it will come through.

Take some more cuttings next year, and put them in sharp sand in
the shade. I have succeeded a couple of times, failed another
couple, and have some that rooted and then went chlorotic.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.