Product review for Chameleon Plant Overall Rating: Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers Sort Reviews: Newest | Oldest | Highest Rating | Lowest Rating   :: Viewing page 1 of 2  -  Wednesday, March 14, 2007 Planted in PA Reviewed By: Pam (Allentown, PA) Buyer Beware. I bought and planted in November. The good news is that the retaining wall is nicely covered in new growth from the runners. The bad news is that my entire law is as well. All 20 feet to the front of my house.  -  Thursday, April 05, 2007 Doubly Beware Reviewed By: D (Boise City, Oklahoma) Doubly Beware because. Most of these as shipped as 'plants' are small cuttings barely rooted, and they are very tender at that size. Years back I bought a one gallon rootbound one that was bulletproof... and three separate batches of the tiny cuttings in the past two years. They are very picky to get thriving... THEN stand back as they will take over. I bought the original one as a bog waterplant, and it was picky about how much water it'd tolerate. In one gallon nursery pot it liked one inch at the bottom of the pot, no more. Drier than that it didn't like either. Recommendations are part shade here, likes to be on the damp side but well drained, and a thorough soaking and let dry slightly between waterings. Once it's going it still doesn't like to be dry. Best color is with midmorning light, shade from strong afternoon light(11a to 5p). I consider it a tender tropical in having to bring it in to winter it in zone 6A, before frost starts. Also recommend potting up in one gallon pot for handleability for indoor. AND it delights in growing out the drain holes. IF you think a pot is dead, carefully depot and check at the bottom of the rootball for fresh shoots! I've been surprised more than once.  -  Friday, April 06, 2007 AVOID THIS PLANT Reviewed By: Nicole (Springfield, Virginia) This plant is highly invasive and the roots smell like rotting fish! Weeding it is a nightmare as the smell seems to be a migraine trigger for many and it's just replusive. Worse, it will replicate from _any_ part of its root system left in the ground. Sure, it's pretty but that's not enough to buy this noxious weed.  -  Saturday, June 30, 2007 Great Colorful Plant Reviewed By: S (Scranton, PA) Nice vibrant red color on the tips of the leaves. Great for planting as a border on the side of a home, sided by a paved driveway.  -  Monday, October 01, 2007 Great Ground Cover! Reviewed By: L (Jamestown, NY) Rating this plant depends on what you want it for. For a ground cover, I give it a 5...as a garden plant I'd give it a 1. I am growing it in a zone 4-5 area with no protection. It is a very pretty plant with it's multi-color leaves, flowers aren't significant. The problem arises with it's invasive habit...I don't think I can kill it. I have been fighting it in my flower beds but I am now in the process of moving it to make rings around my trees so that I don't have to mow up to the trunks. I think, 3-4 foot rings will work out well...if it spreads out, it gets mowed off. If you can contain it, you are going to like it. The smell is strong when working in it, one benefit to that is the deer and rabbits don't seem to bother it.