"Janet Tweedy" wrote
In article , Sacha
writes
It's an annual, Judith but whether it seeds itself around, I haven no
idea because this is the first year we've grown it. It is said to
grow to 6' in warm climates but more likely around 4' here.

Let me know when "they do it" in anything other than orange and
yellow.

I looked it up as I've not grown this either and see it's claimed to be
a drought tolerant plant that can grow 4-6' and not need staking, which
sounds good to me! I've just been reading a prediction in our Sunday
paper that we will have another record-breaking hot summer. Trouble is
that orange is so hard to place. I've got a lot of dark pink and maroon
flowered things and daren't be as bold as Christopher Lloyd was about
clashes. ;-)

--
Sue

On 11/3/07 16:02, in article
, "Sue"
wrote:


"Janet Tweedy" wrote
In article , Sacha
writes
It's an annual, Judith but whether it seeds itself around, I haven no
idea because this is the first year we've grown it. It is said to
grow to 6' in warm climates but more likely around 4' here.

Let me know when "they do it" in anything other than orange and
yellow.

I looked it up as I've not grown this either and see it's claimed to be
a drought tolerant plant that can grow 4-6' and not need staking, which
sounds good to me! I've just been reading a prediction in our Sunday
paper that we will have another record-breaking hot summer. Trouble is
that orange is so hard to place. I've got a lot of dark pink and maroon
flowered things and daren't be as bold as Christopher Lloyd was about
clashes. ;-)

I think dark pink and orange would look wonderful together. My memory of it
is that it has a good bit of red in the orange, if you see what I mean.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
(remove weeds from address)