Show us your climbers

Longk, you're always on a winner with blue! I have a passion for blue plants. I'll give you a potted (excuse the pun) run down. My soil is sandy (coastal position), the island gets a lot of rain and suffers high winds during the winter months. I have a traditional style in plants and only tend to grow annuals in pots/planters as overwintering plants (perennials) get torn apart. Does this help?

 

B.hell! You want the last of my Nigella seeds!


Self seeds readily..............

Should be able to harvest seeds from this soon - Linum perenne


The flowers are small, but abundant!

 

I like the Nigella's spikey form and it would fit in well with my planting scheme. How high does it grow please.

 

This is a plant that really can't make its mind up for a name !Now I think this plant is known as...........
Creeping Gloxinia
Lophospermum
Maurandya erubescens
Asarina - several types
I bought a couple of "Lofos" from the nursery 2 years ago. They did not grow as big as Longks , but they got to 8 feet lovely vine shaped leaves, and late in the season the wine coloured bell flowers - very very nice I thought . I bought Lophospermum seeds last year germinated no problem but when I planted them out they never really took off. Are the plant types above the same ? Should i be choosing one of the Asarina types?

 

A.scandens is the only one that I have grown and heartily recommend it. I may have some seeds left somewhere..............

 

Sal,
What temp is the alata hardy down to??

 

Plenty of Lathyrus Sativus seed pods developing for the seedswap!
Sorry, lousy picture.

 

By theesoog at 2012-07-14

Virginia Creeper, it's grown nearly a third since that was taken two months ago..

 

How are your Canarina growing Peter?

 

Growing well LongK - although only about 12 inches tall. In fact I was keeping quiet as it looks as though it has a flower bud. But I am tempting fate to mention it as buds can fall of if the light and temperature are not high enough. Its on the window sill - so I am keeping my fingers crossed.

Is this one you are growing?

The one that is growing well is Pandorea - though no sign of a flower. Whilst Canarina doesn't look like a vine yet, Pandorea really does. Its fallen in love with a Colocasia next to it and its wound itself all around it - so sweet.

 

That's the one that I have. Yours is doing well - if a bud is forming then it is just about to fork too. How old is it?

The Pandorea can flower at any time, so don't give up yet! It is also hardier than it's given credit for - new buds are forming on mine in the greenhouse at the moment.

 

Longk - we are talking Canarina not Brugmansia aren't we? My Canarina has already branched quite a bit and looks more like a very small shrub than a climber.

Both my Canarina and Pandorea were grown from seed sown earlier in the year. So I certainly haven't given up on Pandorea, as its still very young. Looking at Charlie Pridham's site http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk/climbers/pandorea jasminoides.htm he says that if its inside over the winter it could start to flower as early as March, but if kept outdoors (no chance or surviving in Yorkshire) then July or later.

 

Peter - see the description on this page..................

 

LongK - thanks a lot for that. I really wasn't sure if you were serious about branching - or just taking the p*ss. However I have read the link and you are quite right - I had to go and have a close look at it. I also didn't know that it had tuberous roots.

I look at a lot of sites when I have seeds, or someone mentions something new. But it often doesn't sink in that well until I have a vested interest in the form of a growing plant.

I still haven't quite cracked their cultivation. I grew several from seed (perhaps at the wrong time of year) in the spring and they grew and I watered them well all summer - when they should have been dormant and had no water. Then I went on watering them in winter in their growing season when they want plenty of water, and one died from over-watering.

 

I know what you mean - I'm having the same trouble with my Anigozanthos.