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Charlie Pridham[_2_] · 11-03-2013, 08:45 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening

"Janet" wrote in message
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"Janet" wrote in message
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Does anyone in urg grow this outdoors in the garden (in the UK)?

I've just seen it for sale in Scotland but have some doubts about the
vendor's
hardiness claim

Janet

There is a plant of this in the border in front of the house at Wisley, I
checked this January while visiting and it is unprotected and un damaged
(I
accept its been a mild winter but its a large shrub so its been there a
few
years) I would say if it gets good summer heat it will take
occasional -10c

Gardening is always a compromise :-) In a typical winter my Arran garden
will
have a few nights where the temp dips below 0C. The coldest so far this
winter was -
2C.But, we do not get anything I could seriously call "good summer heat".
Every few
siummers or so the temp briefly reaches 74 for an afternoon or so and we
all start
flopping around imagining the onset of heat exhaustion.

I agree there's sometimes a good reason a plant is "never seen".. but
quite
often, it's not been seen just because it never had a good publicity
agent. I
already grow several such plants which have proved to be perfectly happy
and hardy
in my garden to a regular chorus from visitors of "whatever is that, never
seen it
for sale".

Anyway, since several posters have reported seeing Edgworthia surviving
in colder
spots than mine, I reckon it's worth a gamble, so this afternoon I went
back to the
GC and bought one.

Janet

Same for us here Janet, lack of summer heat is a bigger problem than winter
cold.

--
Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall
Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella
and Lapageria rosea cvs
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk