Larry,

That was me. I didn't know it at the time but this is a short day plant - it won't set buds and flowers until days are around 12 hours - which is about September 21. So it should be a great winter bloomer - if you have the light and space. Time to get a greenhouse :-)

Alternately, if you get it up and growing healthily before June 21, it should have a flush of flowers in mid June. It is not that cold sensitive, so it can go outside in early May. Which also means you don't have to worry about getting it in the house real early in the fall.

Well that's too bad. Explains last year. Flowered late but brought it inside "whole" and it continued to flower for a while before finally dropping both flowers and leaves in January. But now it's a lot bigger and was so messy last winter so I won't try that again. I'll leave it outside as long as possible to enjoy the flowers and decide next spring if I want to give it to someone with a greenhouse.

Larry

Still outside and still blooming, although looking pretty ratty since a lot of the leaves have dropped. Once it starts consistently getting close to 30 at night I'll whack it back and store it in the basement.

Larry