Spider Flower

...and one more comment, it was THIS flowering plant that got me here on this site. I was looking for more information on it, and how to get it to grow in other places in my garden..although my exhusband thinks it might grow and take me away with it, it got so big! I believe that might be wishful thinking on his part!

That is amazing...so tall...

If the weather hadn't changed I think it would still be growing. It was constantly sprouting legs..I guess what I'm trying to figure out is how to replant it next year? I think I have the seeds from it, but my knowledge is so far off...

Just let the seeds fall where they may and you will have hundreds of them to transplant around in your garden next year, just pull back the mulch if you have any under this plant, it will reseed more profusely with better soil contact. Just don't do any early weeding ,Let everything get it's first set of true leaves before pulling.(Wait till plants are about 3 inches tall). I checked, and there is a few good pics for you to go by, if you google 'cleome seedlings'. Hope this helps...

I love cleome, spider flower, I've collected seed myself. It wouldn't do so great over winter here I think. I'm planning planting up a big area with them to try naturalizing. I love the size. This one looks great.

Thanks for the advice. It's getting so sad looking now, that the weather has been so soggy and cool. I'm a very "new" gardener, and I don't really know much about what to do with plants over the winter. I thought I read that this was an annual. I only saw one other one like this, with the spidery legs (or arms) in the next town over. It was growing out of a sidewalk and it was just as amazing as this one. Once I realized what it was that was growing, I began to notice them in other places, mostly in singular stalks, not like this. Still very very pretty. I look forward to more of them next year!

I've never seen one this tall, It's fantastic.

Is it getting full sun?

Thanks Hywel, this is just a plant with a mind of it's own. It amazed me every day. I thought it was marijuana and I kept watching it, because the leaves actually look like the cannabis plant, and the smell actually is very skunky...I couldn't figure out where it came from and then eventually it started to flower, and one by one by one until there were 6 spikes. This picture is just the top of it, really, and the middle spike is the first one. I read that the seeds get carried by bats, which we happen to have in my neck of the woods. I saw another one like this in a town over, maybe it got propegated that way...not sure. But that was pretty far away.

And Judi, yes, I think it got fairly good sun. Though my yard is never full sun all day. The one I saw in the next town over was actually growing out of the sidewalk underneath a tree. It was really magnificent.

That's some crazy weed....lol....pun intended! Again, thanks for looking at my pictures and taking the time out to comment!

Well it is a very beautiful plant, even if it isnt the magical ganga-weed :)

Wow, I wish mine does grow this big.

HI Panther, I must have some amazing energy in my dirt or something! But I saw another one in the next town grow in exactly the same crazy way. I couldn't get it to grow that way if I tried! lol

And thank Judi, I found it so beautiful, too...

Lol yes it must be the soil Pg, I had to go take a look at mine after seeing this and seems it hasn't grown any bit, so I've added some more soil around it. I hope it does the trick!! :-)