Four O'Clock

Four O'Clock or Mirabilis Jalapa Yellow - This is from Kim's garden.  I'm trying to root it and was a struggle at first.  The leaves always look wilted.

It got the name because of the time of day (4:00 pm) that it likes to bloom or during a dark cloudy day it will bloom earlier.

Hummingbirds are supposed to really like this bloom.  It's a perennial - yeah!  It's a leafy shrub-like, multi-branched tender perennial that grows 18-36 inches tall and just as wide.  Kim did warn me that she is constantly having to trim it back.

I planted it in the passion flower garden.  I'm wondering how that's going to work out.  At one point, the purple passion vine tried to attach itself to the four o'clock and I had to unhook it.  Should be interesting...

There are two pictures below - one shows the plant during the day - so wilted.  Then in the afternoon, the leaves perk up with no sun and the flowers bloom!  Very pretty yellow stars!