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Sacha[_1_] · 28-12-2006, 04:34 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 28/12/06 16:14, in article , "Charlie
Pridham" wrote:

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 27/12/06 23:26, in article , "Bob
Hobden" wrote:

"Sacha" wrote ((big snip))

He says "not overwhelmed" but the colour is quite interesting. It's a
medium
sized flower, long like the old-fashioned Fuchsias. The sepals are
scarlet
and the centre almost black. I asked about the climbing properties and
he
says his got up to about 8' in the greenhouse here but the one he saw
in
Tresco was about 20 to 30' up a tree and must have been donkey's years
old.
It's not a natural climber, in that it doesn't self support and has to
be
tied in.
snip

I seem to remember one at Trengwainton too, but it seemed to me to climb as
Couch grass - ie just pushes its self into something but has no proper
climbing mechanisim, but maybe the one you are all talking about is
completely different!
No, I think that could still be right. If it's climbing into e.g. a tree,
as in Tresco, it will snag itself onto branches, twigs, rough bits of bark
etc. But if it's to go up a trellis or smooth support, it will need help to
take hold.
I'm trying to remember the name of that trailing grey leafed plant that's so
good for baskets etc. I put some into a cut out square on a raised and
paved terrace that also had an old Camellia in it. Within a year the
whatever-it-is had climbed UP to the very top of the Camellia but without
that rough trunk etc., it was as traily as a trailing thing! ;-)

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Sacha
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