Haha Jon! I thought you were going to post an Empress Wu, but immediately realized it wasn’t! Yours is a beauty! Mine is about the same size. During the bloom was yours weighed down by those long snake-like petioles with huge flowers?? Mine was almost on the ground.

debra

I have 2 Wus (love the sound of that., here comes the steam train) One is 5 1/2 feet wide. The S&S is much nicer. It's been very dry so the edges were getting crispy. It's a trooper though. Chugs along in the English Ivy alongside a huge pine.

In the back is another 5 foot S&S.

Then there are my 5 S&Ss that are all about 5 feet wide that form a 'friendly neighbor" fence. - Jon