About 6 weeks ago, I planted a Mukdenia 'Crimson Fan' and it appears to be very healthy and doing well, except that it doesn't seem to be growing. It is the same size as when I planted it and I don't see any signs of new growth emerging. It is planted in a newly amended bed with good drainage and in partial shade. Actually, everything it requires is present and there is no indication that any of the plants in that bed suffered any ill effects from our extremely hot summer temperatures.

I was wondering if anyone has this plant or knows how fast it grows? I'm really not in a big hurry to have this become and awesome plant at this time of the year, but I would like to see some indication that it has adequately established itself before winter sets in. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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"Lord, I love you and I need you, come into my heart, and bless me, my family, my home, and my friends, in Jesus' name. Amen!"

Thanks for the site Rosie, but it didn't give me much more information that I received with the plant except it said growth rate was moderate.

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I bet it's going to be gorgeous when it turns red!

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I'm sure it would be gorgeous if it was a little bigger, but at the size it is now I really don't this it going to make an awesome show this fall!

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"Lord, I love you and I need you, come into my heart, and bless me, my family, my home, and my friends, in Jesus' name. Amen!"

Actually, Rosie, I know that but sometimes I get impatient and forget it. My friend's mother once told me that perennials sleep, creep, and then leap! The first year they sleep, the 2nd year they creep, and the third year they leap and they really do!!!

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"Lord, I love you and I need you, come into my heart, and bless me, my family, my home, and my friends, in Jesus' name. Amen!"

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The "sleep, creep, leap" theory works and it's too bad we don't have someone tell us that when we are beginning gardeners.

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Fortunately, I was a "beginning" gardener, as far as perennials, when my friend's mother told me this and she supplied me with most of my plants for my first real perennial bed about 5 years ago. Before that most of my gardening was limited to shrubs, bushes, bulbs, and lots of annuals. Of course, there were a few of the "old" stand-bys (Irises, Shasta Daisies, etc.) that you just planted and forgot because they always performed well without any fuss.

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"Lord, I love you and I need you, come into my heart, and bless me, my family, my home, and my friends, in Jesus' name. Amen!"