{"id":2798,"date":"2019-09-27T00:05:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T07:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pal-question-49\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T15:20:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T22:20:19","slug":"deppea-splendens-plant-culture-and-care","status":"publish","type":"pal","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/deppea-splendens-plant-culture-and-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Deppea splendens plant culture and care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I have a plant, <i>Deppea splendens<\/i>, purchased through a special offer from <i>Pacific Horticulture<\/i>. It is a native of Mexico. This year (I&#8217;ve had it for about 2 years) it looks very healthy and has gotten quite a bit bigger. It is supposed to flower, but it has yet to do so for me. Any answers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Deppea splendens<\/i> is such a rare (previously almost extinct) plant that none of our standard sources have any cultural information. However, there was an article written about it in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacifichorticulture.org\/articles\/ideppea-splendensi\/\">April 2000 issue<\/a> of <em>Pacific Horticulture<\/em> by Kathy Musial which mentions that it needs a frost-protected spot if it is to flower. The article recommends growing it in a container in colder regions so it may be brought into a sheltered area. Overly dry conditions will also cause the flowers to abort.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpts from the article are included in University of British Columbia Botanical Garden&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/botanyphoto.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca\/2007\/11\/deppea_splendens\/\">&#8220;Botany Photo of the Day&#8221;<\/a> web page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a plant, Deppea splendens, purchased through a special offer from Pacific Horticulture. It is a native of Mexico. This year (I&#8217;ve had it for about 2 years) it looks very healthy and has gotten quite a bit bigger. It is supposed to flower, but it has yet to do so for me. Any answers? Deppea splendens is such a rare (previously almost extinct) plant that none of our standard sources have any cultural information. However, there was an&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/deppea-splendens-plant-culture-and-care\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deppea splendens plant culture and care<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[706,705,152],"class_list":["post-2798","pal","type-pal","status-publish","hentry","keyword-deppea","keyword-mexican-plants","keyword-plant-care"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal\/2798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pal"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}