Mine freezes back each winter too but considering it's planted in the middle of the front flower bed I wouldn't want the plant to get too big! I really had no idea what it's growing requirements were when I bought it, just fell in love with it's flowers while at a plant sale and had to have it! Right now it's growing squashed between a firespike, large coleus, and butterfly bush.

I have a very large one in my greenhouse that I have to keep cutting back. I have another rooted cutting that I am letting grow over th ewinter, I am going to plant it out next Spring and see if it makes it. All the other Clerodendrons are hardy here, if they freeze to the ground they come right back...someone told me this one was more tender. I have minahassee, ugandese, shooting star, speciossum, and 3 different vining ones in the ground already, they do fine. Anyone growing it where it might have frozen (22-28F?)

I am giving it a go for the first time in a couple of days. This is very helpful, Thank you!!!

I love Christmas Music. I listen all year off and on. And I get very happy when I hear it on the radio or in stores. The Christmas season, to me, is too short and flies by too fast. I guess I can understand why one might be annoyed at what a store serving a large amount of people might choose to do holiday wise, I do NOT understand the comments here speaking with such disdain about what people choose to do in their own homes and yards. That's just weird. I remember during my first job at Subway, at age 15. I would get yelled at or whined to by whole adults about things that I had no control over. The store didn't accept a certain coupon, I got yelled at, they were unhappy about the amount of meat on the sandwich, I got yelled at. It was a corporate formula, calculated for food cost and such. What could I do about that, other than offer to add more at an added charge. Also, not in charge of prices, still got whined at for them. And yes, the music. No one was ever happy with the music. Every time I got raged at by an angry adult over such things I would think "Are you dumb? What am I supposed to do about it?" Things like that would absolutely ruin my whole day because I was a people pleaser back then, and it did make me feel powerless and an utter failure. Glad I grew out of that. Now, when, for example, in my current job, I have to enforce a rule or a LAW for heavens sake, and one of the drivers gets mad, I do ask them if they are dumb, and if they think that I make the laws dictating how heavy they can be? Or if I make the policy that they cant be on their phone while they are loading or whatever it is? That usually makes them calm down. But the actual dumb ones keep going. Doesn't ruin my day anymore though. Looking back now at my Subway days, those people should really be ashamed of themselves. And they should have just stayed home and made their own stupid sandwich how THEY like it, and played whatever music they wanted while eating it. But back to the topic, sort off. Stores cater to the majority. Clearly, something is giving them the impression that people are eager to kick off the celebrations. But its a trade off. Happy people spend money. Unhappy people make noise. Do you think the people who benefit from the happy ones care about the people that have to deal with the noise? Here's a hint: no.