Great Cascade Wine Red: Report #3

It has been over a month since I reported on the Great Cascade Wine Red plant and the progress it is making as a container plant for my balcony. Why you ask have I not blogged about Great Cascade?  Well, there has not been much to report.  Otherwise known as Creeping Gloxinia Lofos Wine Red, I received these as very small plants in early May.  They have spent the last month and a half growing in size, but no cascading flowers.

In the Great Cascade Wine Red Information post I mentioned that a grower stated that it would have prolific red flowers after the vine had filled the container and I worried that using a three gallon container was too large?  Well, I was right.  This vine has continued to grow over the past month and a half, but has not started to flower:

This might be the first Great Cascade Wine Red flower for the summer:

What has your experience been?  Were you lucky enough to have purchased a mature Great Cascade Wine Red from a nursery or garden center?  Are you getting flowers late June?

Great Cascade Wine Red Information

Introduced in 2003 Great Cascade Wine Red is showing up in many home gardens.  This vine cascades from hanging flower baskets or can be trained to grow up a trellis.  Growing up to 7 feet in one season, Great Cascade Win Red has dark pinkish red flowers and thrives in full sun.

Please leave your comments about your experience growing this plant.  We can all learn about your experiences in growing Great Cascade Wine Red as part of a container garden or when planted in the ground.

Great Cascade Wine Red resources:

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Excellent write up from a commercial greenhouse:
http://www.pineae.com/suntory_product.php?autonumber=80

See that note about it beginning to flower when the pot is full?  I am worried about putting in a 3 gallon container to grow on my deck.  Will this delay blooming?

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Comments from Gardeners on Dave'sGarden.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/160100/

Great Cascade Wine Red: Report #1

Great Cascade Wine Red is a new plant I am trying this summer.  The plants were obtained from Park Seeds and on their website are named, Creeping Gloxinia Lofos™ Wine Red or the botanical name of Lophospermum Lofos Wine Red.  It arrived from a grower other than Parks and had the tag, Great Cascade, Wine Red.  I believe this is the same plant by another name. 

Here is my first report. 

Ordered in February and it was shipped at the perfect time for this area, they arrived the last week of April.  The plants received were a 6 pack of plants that ranged between 3 inches and 5 inches tall.  This plant can grow up to eight feel long climbing or cascading so I put these tiny little plants into 3 gallon pots of potting soil.  Container gardening increases the chance of plants drying out, so I try to assure a large amount of soil.  Admittedly these container pots may be small for this monster if it grows to its full 8 feet long.  Previously these pots held Petunia's or Verebena each year, hopefully they will be able to meet the water needs of this monster. 

I have placed four of the Great Cascade plants on the balcony and have placed two on the deck.  On the balcony my intent is for them to trail over the side.  Because there is a door under the balcony, I may need to trim these vines occasionally.  On the deck I am hoping that they interweave themselves through the railing to create a privacy screen.

There is not a lot of information about these plants on the web so I will record my experience throughout this growing season.  Gardeners have rated this plant a 4 out of 5 at the Proven Winners site. 

I grow flowers from the balcony every year and am happy to have a new plant to test!

Week 1: