Fremontodendron advice?

I visited the local garden centre today after work (I rarely visit as I baulk at paying nearly £8 for a 2L Penstemon...)

Anyway I spotted in the reduced section a huge spindly Fremontodendron 'Tequila Sunrise' down from £20 odd to less than a fiver! So I did what anyone would do and ran to the till before anyone stopped me xD

But I'm not really sure what to do to help it bush out a bit... do they sucker? It's got to be about 6ft tall!

 

That looks like a fab looking example @shiney

Mine was just delivered earlier although I should of looked more closely as I can see there is some significant scaring from bark damage (looks quite old though) so that might be why it's a bit spindly, plenty of growth up top though so maybe I might put it in a sunny corner out the way and take a few cuttings for a more prominent plant.

I remember this plant specifically for the horrible hairs covering the leaves and flowers I had to weed round a lovely one at college every so often and I don't miss it

But I think as long as I remember what I'm doing and near it's fine, otherwise I might need to invest in a roll of this



The RHS website says this is a good time for cuttings and I have a tub of Clonex rooting liquid in the post as we speak so wish me luck! the flowers online look scrumptious all burnt orange and lovely.

 

If the plant is spindly then taking cuttings is a good way of pruning it fairly hard back.