{"id":6789,"date":"2020-04-01T04:42:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T04:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=6789"},"modified":"2020-05-10T03:59:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T03:59:07","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-80-abutilon-vitifolium-suntense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/01\/plant-a-day-2020-day-80-abutilon-vitifolium-suntense\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 80) Abutilon vitifolium “Suntense”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here is a hardier version of the flowering maples listed earlier. I grew these shrubs from seed about six years ago. There are peppered about in the orchard bed, next to the house in the dog run, and in a pot on the back patio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flowers of these plants are gorgeous\u2013large and silky, in small clusters at the end of branches. The leaves are handsome, as well. Like their more tender cousins, I have the toughest time growing these into handsome specimens. They have long internodes and long, whippy branches atop spindly trunks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n