Originally Posted by HarryWho

Hello all. I moved to Florida about 2 years ago (Vero) and have been enthralled by tropical plants. Anyway, last July I planted a California gold and have been fussing over it since. It was about 3' when I planted it. It did very well and grew to 8' (stem) by February. We had a cold spell in March and I lost a little over half the leaves. It warmed up 2 weeks ago and it immediately put out a short leaf. Well, it was a flag because I now have a flower. My question is, will it do okay with so few leaves? The flower looks fine.