I can send you a well rooted Yellow Brugmansia in trade for one of your Golden Rain Trees. Can send pics of new plant and last years plant in bloom Xjaxx Jack jatoni@sc.rr.com

Hi, eldo. Thanks for writing. Summers are plenty warm, I'd say, with weeks of highs in the eighties to nineties during the day (during our current drought it's been getting over a hundred), though cooling at night to the seventies, at times sixties. Our heat-loving roses are blessedly happy here, for example. I'll consider the shade factor, though this plant isn't in shade, to be honest, not under a tree. It does get a good deal of sun. Also, in my dad's yard in Florida (where I am now) I notice that the crepe myrtles with shade are really reaching for the heavens, extremely leggy, while this plant is healthily compact. Could the dry summer conditions be a problem, dry air I mean? ????? Thanks for the input. Melissa

I was going to say what esh_ga said. I live in Philadelphia, where, if you don't keep up with weeding out the seedlings, you'll have an absolute jungle of this tree's progeny.

Oh dear, thanks Barb. Bruce! It is better to start your own thread with your own question, than to tack onto someone else's thread. That way, you have the ability to check off the notification box so you're notified of responses to your question. Plus, for those of us with "senior attention issues", it makes it easier to know who we're talking to, lol! As to you issue Bruce, the most definitive way to know if you've got root stock or scion growth is to look at the leaves. If they are trifoliate, it's root stock. And, for sure any branches that come out from below the graft line on the trunk. And, if Picture Trail has an .html code, you can copy and paste that right into your message, and your photo will appear in the message. Easier than having to open another web page, and toggle back and forth :-) You can use Photobucket instead, it is VERY easy to find the .html code. And, it's really hard to tell what the really tall branches are in the middle of the tree. They are acting like water sprouts, but that could be from either the root stock or the scion. But I would recommend continuing this discussion in your own message, so you don't take over the original poster's message thread :-) Patty S.