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Flowers from Spain
Sacha wrote in
: Well, I may have been at fault. It certainly had naturalised at Trelowarren in an derelict greenhouse in a walled garden, but that must be about the most sheltered location in the UK outside Torquay! Even Cornwall can have its cold spots! But the conditions you describe do sound very sheltered and ideal. Well, my bit of Cornwall is not the warmest, but I'm now thinking of trying this in my greenhouse. I have a soil bed under my greenhouse staging that I don't tend to grow anything in because it's a bit difficult to get at and shaded by the staging. There is a corner broken off one of the panes down there, so I'm thinking - plant into the shaded bed under the staging, and train the shoots out through the little gap into the outside world, where there is a sunny berberis hedge it can ramble over. It's not a heated greenhouse though, so I guess I will need to take cuttings each year and overwinter inside, if I try this. Any obvious holes in this idea that I have not spotted? I have grown annual purple ipomoeas in that greenhouse and they seed themselves about in there. But I've decided it's time for a change because I've grown them from seed for about 6 years now, and the flowers are starting to get noticeably smaller with each new generation now. Victoria |
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Flowers from Spain
in article , Victoria Clare
at wrote on 9/4/03 10:45 am: Sacha wrote in : Even Cornwall can have its cold spots! But the conditions you describe do sound very sheltered and ideal. Well, my bit of Cornwall is not the warmest, but I'm now thinking of trying this in my greenhouse. I have a soil bed under my greenhouse staging that I don't tend to grow anything in because it's a bit difficult to get at and shaded by the staging. There is a corner broken off one of the panes down there, so I'm thinking - plant into the shaded bed under the staging, and train the shoots out through the little gap into the outside world, where there is a sunny berberis hedge it can ramble over. It's not a heated greenhouse though, so I guess I will need to take cuttings each year and overwinter inside, if I try this. Any obvious holes in this idea that I have not spotted? Sounds good to me but yes, if it's not heated at all, I think you'll have to take cuttings. The house ours are kept in is kept just above freezing over the winter. You could always experiment with one of your cuttings outside over winter, once it's a big grown up plant! snip -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk |
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