Tibouchina

Guys my local garden have some tibouchina plants for sale , will they survive winter indoor?

 

Take a look here sal
I would say yes
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=1932

 

Definitely! They will croak it outdoors though, and take forever to get going again if kept cool (ie; frost free) over the winter. Indoors (in my conservatory) was best by far.

 

they are sunny loving plants and sunny and uk don`t match

My Aunty in Zew Zealand had one in her garden and told me that can take 5 to 7 frost every year , but all followed by sunny days and the temperature no less then -2c ...
should I buy one and see what`s going on????

 

why was , what uppen to it???

 

No conservatory since the move so I left it outdoors in a dry and sheltered spot - it croaked!

The year before I kept it cool and frost free and took forever to come back into growth. In the conservatory I would let it tick over on the dry side - dropped most of its foliage but would be back in vigorous growth by early April when the daylight hours suited it. If I tried to keep it growing over the winter it would get leggy, so a state of dormancy seemed to work better.

 

After posting this thread I gave up the idea of a Tibouchina ,
strange thing ....today I was working in one of my customer garden , just to find out that he had 3 Tibouchina growing outdoor and about to flower .......
I couldn`t resist to ask for few cutting .

Nothing better then observe other peoples garden and find out what they got .

 

The thing that is better than that is observing other peoples gardens and finding out what they can give you a bit of

 

well , well , well .....the plant I saw at the garden center was £10 so just saved myself a tenner and got more chance to get the plant survive outdoor

 

I have not been able to over winter it here ... and I've tried twice!

 

Not somethng I've ever bothered to overwinter.
It grows like the clappers and gets straggly IMO.#
Sorry.

 

Victoria , that was a real surprice for myself as well , I`ve asked the owner of the house who did the garden and he told me that he paid a profetional garden for the planting , all the garden was done last year and he told me that he didn`t lost not a single plant .
actually while i was there I`ve collected few more cutting as well and have to admit that the guy have done a real nice selection of novelty plant ....including a black agapantus and many plants that didn`t even manage to identify (so I had to take few cutting )

It`s not the usual new garden luck , but someone who know what is doing ....
what I`ve noticed that they where in a sandy soil , sunny position and carefull placed in a protect spot of the garden .

the plant wasn`t in perfect shape , but managed to regrow and flowering , that`s a lot to me .

 

Mine overwintered quite happily in a frost free greenhouse, and is now growing well again. It was quite tall in its first year, so I can well understand Pete's comment that they can get straggly.