Re: Romneya coulteri

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I sent this to Pamela Steele, but actually meant to send it to the whole group too, so am copying it here. I might add that my experience in San Francisco is that the plant often seems to be failing for the first couple of years, and then grows like gangbusters.

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Yes, Romeya can send out runners and new plants pop up several feet from the parent plant. If you are gardening relatively intensively, they aren't a problem, because you just dig them out when you weed, but they could sneak up on you if the plantings around the Romneya are very thick and/or you aren't paying much attention.

If you dig the little plants from the runners out deeply enough to get some root, and pot them up fast, you can often get them to grow, letting you share your plant.

I deadhead the stems frequently and, if it is growing well, cut it to the ground in late November or in December.

Best wishes,

Pam Peirce
San Francisco, CA
Sunset Zone 17