Just when fall was beginning to fade, the gloxinia on my back deck burst into brilliant orange. I have two pots of gloxinia given to me by two different friends. They require consistent watering all summer long and I sometimes wonder if these little nondescript plants are worth the effort. However, when those cold, damp, dreary days of late autumn started to feel a little depressing, the almost neon orange blaze of these blossoms made my day.It took some research to discover that my gloxinia are a variety that is well named as Bolivian Sunset! While it is definitely an exotic tropical, some growers claim that with good mulch, these plants function well as perennials in Zone 8. This spring, I plan to divide one of my pots in order to plant some of it in the ground (in a location close to my hose, of course). They claim that given the opportunity to spread its roots in the ground, the blooms are so dense that they hide the foliage.
Meanwhile, I've carried my little tropical sunset indoors to enjoy.
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