fire betty, i couldn't get your link to open... and i am not familiar with that plant... but... welcome to the garden helper and maybe someone soon will stop in who knows...

Hi, thanks for your responses.

Let me see if I can clarify.

My growing zone is 10.

I water it every two to three days. I read that it likes a lot of moisture. However, we DID just get two weeks of rain in in L.A. I thought that it might be the culprit, but ALL of my other plants are fine. Even the ones that don't particularly like a lot of water.

I'm not exactly sure what kind of soil I planted it in..it was just the soil that existed. It was a potted plant when I purchased it and I kept the existing soil around the root system.

It's planted next to the concrete foundation. with about a half a foot distance to the wall.

Unfortunately, I can not bring the plant inside. Because it is so viney, and has SOME established attached parts to the wood trellis that is attached to the house. It doesn't ever get that cold in Los Angeles, and actually the last week or so, we've been having 75 degree weather during the day, with lows only in the high 50's. Before that, we had a few days that were in the 40s...but no frost or anything.

I have some photos of it, but I'm not sure if there is a way to post photos on this forum.

I don't think the link in my original post is active, you can just copy the link, and paste it into the browser address window.

Thanks again, for any help.

Hi FireBetty!

I can't see the 2 pics you posted but your original link works for me...what a beautiful vine! I LOVE purple/magenta flowers!!

i got the link to work, and it is a beautiful vine. i am wondering if it is like my coral vine. very tempermental. and maybe just "pouting"

Hi everyone, thanks so much for all your replies. I'm attempting to upload the images again, but at half the size of my original attempt.

The vine gets sun at about 3pm thru sunset. I've started to wonder if perhaps it's just adjusting to the new environment. Like a ficus tree, maybe it's just temperamental. I know that the vine is from Costa Rica, so I can assume that it needs a lot of water.

Hopefully, the links for the photos will work.
let me know.

thanks!

Firebetty...
I've done some "stuff" to your url address for your photos and can only come up with a page at yahoo that says I don't have permission to access.

If you want to email the pics to me, I'll put them on here, then we'll work on getting your photos where you can post them with no problem.

I PM'd you my email address.

Cindy

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Well I dug around this morning.I have e mailed raintree.com...they are a tropical plant data base&are "claimed" to be the most complete tropical sub-tropical plant database.you can usually search for detailed info on a plant on their site.

I found http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Euphorbiaceae/Dalechampia_dioscoraefolia.html this on desert- tropicals.

says it will recover from light frosts which will do some damage to the leaves.(Its shaded in the morning if sun is later in day till sunset,which means will stay cooler right there before warming up)

Gotta share this one being in same area.
http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Euphorbiaceae/Dalechampia_roezliana.html
That must be the wild one huh.
I did finaly run into a page that said are pollinated by a tropical bee& listed as grown from cuttings& seed.was from a plant collecter in madagascar.

I couldn't make the pics out.so will check back.

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moist soil....but thats a condition.I would think organically rich would fit the bill being they grow in a rainforest on the floor....decomposeing rainforest nurishing the plants.no word from raintree forest yet. I'm searching under plant family now: Euphorbiacea

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Don't know anything about the vine, but the pictures look good!


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that's what i'd do, mulch, mulch, mulch

I asked my cuz...out yonder on the west coast and this was what he said.

Here in California it is used outdoors in warmer zone 9/10 locations, and is
usually in full bloom from mid summer into December or January if planted in a
wind protected spot that gets reflected heat. It is a tropical vine, but is
said to be root hardy to 25F or so, but typically drops foliage in my garden by
January even without frost, and doesn't start growing again until it warms up in
April. It will probably need very bright light to grow indoors/greenhouse to
bloom, and as it is a rampant grower, I would suggest it is better in containers
for summer/fall display outdoors, and then wack it back and bring inside for
winter in zone 8 locations. This vine is as vigorous in habit as Thunbergia
grandiflora, and seems to prefer similar growing conditions to bloom. It is a
much more reliable bloomer in cooler summer conditions, as it doesn't need high
heat to perform well. I've seen it completely covering a 20 foot tall by 30
foot wide wall here in Berkeley, and simply co!
vered in bloom, for at least 9 months out of the year. It also does set some
small amount of seed under our conditions, and is related to Pointsettias and
Euphorbias! It is probably also available mailorder from places like Kartuz
Greenhouses in Vista, Calif, or as 1 and 5 gallons sized plants at nurseries in
southern California, or special ordered from wholesale growers like San Marcos
Growers in Santa Barbara,(no mail order, retail sales, or shipping out of
state).

For me it has done pretty well as a container plant in less than full sun in a
15 gallon container, but blooms more prolifically in full sun and more heat, and
is fairly drought tolerant once established,(in habitat in Costa Rica it grows
in seasonally winter dry deciduous forest, so is adapted to several months of no
rain in the cooler months).

And wants me to grow in a pot...ha ha.I'll cheat.I'll pot up for winter.lol

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