Hidy ho... I am hoping to get my hands on this beauty...please let me know if I have something you'd like to trade for. Thank you!

I just sent you an email, I would really like some Passiflora

Thanks for your input! I have had the agastache AND the lavender Munstead in the garden in the past, and not come back, either due to rotting/wetness or cold, or both. So I decided to try them in pots. To be honest, they were already-grown pots purchased locally on sale and from Bluestone Perennials, on sale last year. I love them for cutting. I am pretty sure they are doing fine out in the unheated garage...we water a little every few weeks, that's all. The Chabaud carnations I planted from seed...will bloom this summer. I winter-sowed a bunch of other annuals/perennials a few weeks ago in pots/containers. We still have tons of snow, so it will be a few months before anything gets planted out anyway. :0) Phyl

hi Liatris, no, it's not weird at all! :) Im in a mediterranean climate zone so it's a very different climate to the east coast. In their natural climate mediterranean plants will do this to cope with the long hot dry summer, they will go into a summer dormancy and it helps them conserve energy. Once the rain returns in autumn/winter they spring back into life and grow very quickly over those months. When the weather starts getting hot and dry again in spring my lavender flowers finish and produce seed and after that they shut down until the following autumn. You can keep them active by watering quite a bit but with our water restrictions it's much easier to let them follow their natural growth pattern. One year I neglected to prune and when the following winter came along they were growing way too big so I sacrificed the flowers and cut them back, but they very quickly produced more flowers which is why I think it wont be a problem even if they are continually flowering because if theyre active they seem just repeat flower soon afterwards anyway.