Hi Carrie! I put a lily of the Nile in a large pot earlier this year. I used miracle gro potting soil and feed it with miracle gro. It is growing in the filtered shade of a mesquite. It was my first time with this beautiful plant and it is growing like crazy. It has put out repeated blooming stalks. The blue flowers are so pretty. I have been real pleased with mine so far and it is in the upper 90's now. I do not think full sun would be a good idea despite what the tag says. I am ready to plant more but will see how it goes in the summer heat. In the winter the pot received more sun and was ok with that. Good luck! Linda

oppalm: I don't know what you mean by'Is this a great country or what'? What I am saying is a fact. You can go to Walllmart and buy a citrus trees grafted for $9.00 ones that are in pots 4x4x18. They are one year old tree. I can bet that in 2 years time you should have flowers in them. If you want bigger trees go to Home Depot or even Wallmart or Costco or Orchard you can buy citrus trees that have if you are lucky have fruits already in them. My favorite place to go is Home Depot in that most of their ctrus are dwarf and have fruits in them. All you need is wait about 8 months and you can taste the fruit of your labor. Usually the costs are from $19 to $24. Are you insinuating that that is too much? I would like to know how much citrus trees cost in Russia or in Europe if you can find them. I think that price is reasonable considering the expenses they spend from their nursery to the consumer. I am not good in telling you that if you plant a citrus seed and possibly you will not get the same fruit as the mother plant. All I know is what I read in here. I read that the fruit usually are inferior in taste as that of the mother plant. Whereas a grafted tree which you bought from the store are the same plant as the mother plant. They are identical. The citrus plant has nothing to do with USA or country.

thank you for replyin jimshy, I have read somewhere that the scent of africAN gardenia is horrible i think it was on daves garden. so, i was not sure because of that comment...eventhough it is one comment. i dont mind a slow grower. but .. can i ask...since the plant is a slow grower, is it a slow flowerer.( if that makes any sense lol) like will it take forever for a bud to open or show up for that matter? i never understood that about slow growing everbloomers. same question can be asked for aglaia orodata.

The large ones take some care. If you trellis them you have to provide them with support, and if you run them on the ground they have to have lots of room. There's nothing more heartbreaking than to walk under your trellis on a nice morning and see that your biggest gourds have hit the ground and broken (sigh... yes... imagine over a dozen broken ones in one night, I didn't think they were heavy enough yet to fall, lesson learned). Anything that will support them is good, some folks use old pantyhose (which is great and doesn't leave marks, just slip the gourd inside and tie it up to something strong. One way or another, you have to protect them from falling.