Full sun, all day long or the bloody thing gets 20' high and leggy. It will spread itself (big surprise) and you may have to restrict its voyage.

Is this the blue butterfly one? Flowers shaped like butterflies? If so, I had it for about two years before it croaked on me. Didn't spread at all here, but it did die after a hard frost. It was beautiful though, and I am planning to try it again in a different spot. If this one does better and needs pruning to stay in bounds, I'll do it. I can smack it around until it behaves with the best of 'em.

Marcia

Marcia, yep that's the plant. I've been growing it in Louisiana for 5 years. It has always come back. The low the last 2 years has been 24. I cut it back in March and it is shoulder height now. You will definitely have to smack it around a bit. Coming back from a freeze, it gets very leggy.

Steve

Twenty feet plus it spreads???!!!???
Yowsa!
Would it then be classified as an invasive, I wonder?
*heavy sigh

At any rate, I'll definitely make sure it gets full sun...LOL

We are talking this plant, right?
(Not that I'm doubting anyone...LOL...jes makin' sure.)

Here is a link that might be useful: Clerodendron ugandense

I cant image growing mine in full sun :( I grow it in partial shade, and the plant does seem to want to be watered regularly.
At USF Botanical Gardens, the plant is definitely in partial shade....
But, if it grows for someone in full sun, I will believe them.
Olya

Mine was only in half day sun, now that I think about it. Maybe it would have been happier in a different spot, I don't know. But it bloomed well in afternoon shade.

And yes, that's the plant I was thinking of.

Marcia

Floridata says:

Open and sprawling evergreen shrub that gets up to 10 ft (3 m) tall and wide, but is easily kept much smaller. Flowers more or less continuously throughout the summer and fall. Grow in partial shade. Water freely in growth but reduce watering in winter. Hardy in Zones 10 - 11; performs best in a frostfree climate, but it is root hardy in zones 8 and 9, freezing to the ground in winter, but returning from its roots in spring. Easy to propagate from stem or root cuttings, or from rooted suckers.

Very pretty flowers. Now on my must have list!

Yeah, mine came back from the roots the first winter, but not the second. However, I must say that I neglected it quite a bit, too, and it might not have been perfectly healthy when the frost hit. Next time I try it, I'll take better care of it. And now that I'm reassured that partial shade is right, I'm going to put one out front somewhere! Thanks for posting that info, Melissa!

Marcia

Run the mower over it , it will come back.

Open and sprawling certainly describes mine. I have had it for 5 years, its in definite full sun all day long. It gets over 12 feet every year and it freezes to the ground every year too. It blooms like crazy. I made the mistake of planting it too close to my husband's bathroom door where it opens to the outside (its a weird bathroom LOL) and in mid-summer he usually can't get out the door due to the clerodendron ugandese and all the bees and butterflies buzzing around it

Might I ask where you found it? I'd love some and I don't live that far from you (N Sarasota), if it was anywhere nearby please let me know. Thanks!

I moved mine to a location where it gets the morning sun and it's doing beautifully.In the location where I had it before, it got more afternoon sun and was actually leaning toward the sun draping over the plants in front of it.

Regina

Wow!
Thank you for all the info!!!
I plan on putting it in a fairly wide area of our backyard...kind of near my gardenia..that, by-the-way, has really taken off!

It will receive morning sun and afternoon dappled light due to our tall palms...a perfect spot, I'd say.
I believe I may attempt to prune it like a tree...wonder if that will work. (???)

Music...found it at, of all places, WALMART, on Cortex Road in Bradenton. We had gone there to purchase one of those 5-DAY coolers...the "H" season it's on its way, ya know...LOL but YIKES!
There were two there...right in the middle aisle as you walk into the garden center.
Maybe the other is still there. :)

Thanks again, folks...will letcha know how this baby does.