Re: Abutilon collection

Thanks for the nursery information.
I am interested in the furry-leaved abutilons not for insect resistance, but deer distaste. A. vitifolium is never touched here, and I can only assume it is because of the furry leaves, as I have a small grove of them, all at nose level. So I thought I could find some fuzzy hybridums that they would leave alone.
Vitifolium flowers exuberantly, but only once. A.x hybridum Huntington Pink flowers all the time in my unheated greenhouse. I'd like to try some long-flowering ones outside to add to my winter- flowering hummingbird plants. (Anna's are here year-long, though the Rufous migrate) 

Is anyone else growing them outside north of California?


Diane Whitehead
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
maritime zone 8, cool Mediterranean climate
mild rainy winters, mild dry summers
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