Re: any experience with Galvezia?

Galvezia speciosa is very easy to propagate from cuttings.  It can 
also be grown from seed..  Its stems arch up, then fall over and may 
root and arch up again, so given a large area it can spread growing 
up thru other bushes or arching over smaller ones.    It keeps its 
bright green color all year, is very drought tolerant and flowers 
intermittantly.  In my experience, it is not a heavy bloomer, but 
some cultivars and  more sun might produce more flowers.  I have it 
under my front window, in shade with Ribes viburnifolia, Nandina, 
Camellia susquanna with snow-drops and white Freesias coming up thru 
it in the winter, and Aquelegia formasa in the summer.  It is a calm 
area with bits of color here and there, as opposed to some other 
areas of the yard that have big bold colors.  We prune it just to 
keep it under control.  The branches are brittle and occasionally 
broken dead pieces need to be removed.

I have seen it sheered into a hedge, in full sun, which I didn't suit 
my taste, but the plant was happy.

Jane Reese
Santa Barbara, CA

>Hi everyone
>Do any of you (the Californians especially, I imagine) grow Galvezia sp.?
>There is virtually no info out there on the net about this plant, 
>which has grown well and flowered in
>a very shady garden in Southern Italy since I gave it to a friend 
>for his birthday in February.
>But we were wondering about how best to propogate it, whether to 
>dead-head, etc.
>Any experiences or ideas?
>
>Anthony Green
>Bari, Italy

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