Yes, PlantFiles: Bleeding Heart Vine, Glory Bower Clerodendrum thomsoniae....is what I am looking for as Mr. Sub said. I did not realize there were different color blooms until this search......... http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4RNWN_enUS291US291&q=bleeding%20heart%20vine&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi google imagine search...bleeding heart vine A local greenhouse can have one in April making it a Mother's Day gift but still hold out hope for a Christmas gift. A garden club is asking around to see if anyone one has one or has seen one for sale. Logee has one but that involves shipping from CT to WV or OH....still could be a problem. I am surprise to hear that they might be hard to root. Hers would get big and she would trims those vines back and always had a bunch rooted in water.....maybe it was her well water!!(or just the time of the year??> Thanks everyone for looking...Patty

I realize that it is only an annual but I thought it would look really nice in a container. I would have to treat it as an annual but we all grow annuals in containers or in the garden. I just think its a really neat plant.

Mine had very thick "trunks" that were deader than a doornail come spring. Any new growth came back from the ground, so feel free to hack it back once it gets frozed. I've two patches, one in the shade of the maple tree, one in full sun, the one in full sun really struggled to come back come spring. Came up, wilted and died. Thought it was dead and gone, but danged if didn't sprout back up again starting about 6 weeks ago, and now the patch is wider-spread than ever. No flowers yet, so it's a waiting game to see what comes first: Flowers or Freeze... One patch is in front of a chain link fence and it just kinda winds itself through it. The other is in front of a reed fence in front of chain link, it wound itself through the reed fence there, and wouldn't you know it, all the flowers were in my neighbors yard! So I put a 3-step "ladder" trellis in the middle of it to give it support on my side of the fence and now there's more flower on my side now. It definitely likes moral support from horizontal surfaces, so I can see it not wanting to climb a tree trunk. I really like the plant and have the space, so started some cuttings that I'll plant in the spring. Such pretty, complex flowers! From Garden From Garden

The purple/red variety is called Clerodendron x speciosa and is a cross between the thomsoniae and the splendens. I have mine in full sun and allow it to dry between waterings. I usually feed it once a month. For some reason that one grows much bigger than either of my thomsoniae's. I love all the clerodendrons. There are so many varieties and some look absolutely nothing alike. My favorite is the C. ugandense Karyn