Jan,

Perhaps it was a Calibrocha.

ZM

Indeed! I think that's it! Thank you so much!

I was going to say million bells, and then went to Zenman's link - I never knew million bells was the common name for calibrocha, lol!

:)
Dee

Just so's were all speaking the same 'language', the correct name is Calibrochoa, pronounced: cal-uh-brah-KO-a. What a great plant!

rhizo_1,

Thanks for the spelling correction. I relied on my memory, which is none too good, and when I got a lot of hits on "calibrocha" (see the link in my first message), I didn't check further. Apparently that misspelling is rather common. I tried the same image search with your correct spelling calibrochoa and got a different collection of pictures. An image search for million bells gives a third set of images.

ZM

And, they are not seed started. They are vegetatively propagated.

I"m back after a few days... As calliope states, these can't be grown from seed :-(
So now, my question is cuttings... Let's say I buy some plants at the store this year and have them outside. At the end of the season, should take cuttings and keep them growing over the winter? Will this work? I'm in zone four. We have a nice sunroom but I suspect it still would not provide enough light to keep them going. Maybe it's just not worth all the work?