Re: Serissa foetida
- Subject: Re: Serissa foetida
- From: d* f*
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 19:55:27 -0700 (PDT)
Mark,
This is a nonperformer in cool summer coastal
California. In my opinion, it needs some summer heat
to really grow and bloom, so is probably best in a
greenhouse with warmer year round conditions than
likely to be found in Britain or northern California.
Where it is warm enough in summer here for it to grow
well, it is usually too cold in winter for it to
survive outdoors; but would probably be fine as a
summer annual or indoor/outdoor plant. I've tried it
several times here in Berkeley, after admiring its
quiet good looks in Los Angeles, but it never amounted
to much...
--- robin corwin <rcorwin@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Mark,
>
> I'm in the Los Angeles area, Zone 9, Sunset Zone 21,
> and have had a double
> flowered white form of serissa foetida as a potted
> plant on my patio for
> several years. It's in a 12 inch pot and is about 2
> 1/2 feet tall by as
> wide. It gets rather gawky-looking, so I prune it
> for shape and to remove
> dead branches in late spring. It flowers most of
> the year, as I recall.
> The coldest it gets here is in the low 40's on
> average. Maybe we get a day
> or two of mid 30 weather in some years.
>
> I've also seen it as a tiny bonsai plant.
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