"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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Charlie Pridham wrote:

My Vinca major 'Alba is 15' into a quince tree and I have to take the
strimmer to it when it blocks the gateway, its flowering at present (when
all is forgiven!)

Well, what do you expect in the subtropics? :-)

Boggle. I didn't know that the shoots would grow 15' without an
intermediate layer. I cut mine back to the ground last autumn,
because it had become fairly impenetrable - it has started flowering
and the flowers are sparser but more visible.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Makes quite a nice small climber, so far I have only allowed the white one
to do it but I guess the other majors would. are you able to grow the other
vincas based on V.difformis like 'Jenny Pimm'? very pretty but not alas
quite so rampant.
--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)