At least tender vegetables just have to be kept inside a few more weeks, and I'd rather buy a £1 seedling now and pot it on myself than buy a £5 large plant in a month's time.

More dishonest is selling tender shrubs mixed in with the hardy shrubs and without giving any info on them. My local garden centre (in the Chilterns) is currently selling Sollya heterophylla. Last year they were selling Metrosideros kermadecensis. These are expensive plants, which require establishing over a number of years. If they advertised them as "conservatory plants" or at least gave a minimum temperature, fair enough, but they don't.

In article , echinosum
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More dishonest is selling tender shrubs mixed in with the hardy shrubs
and without giving any info on them. My local garden centre (in the
Chilterns) is currently selling Sollya heterophylla.


My Sollya has been out over winter for three years now . I grew it from
a cutting but apart for a little damage to the end of the stems it comes
through fine. It's not against the edge of the house and is apparently
healthy again this year.

janet

--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

Janet Tweedy wrote:
In article , echinosum
writes

More dishonest is selling tender shrubs mixed in with the hardy shrubs
and without giving any info on them. My local garden centre (in the
Chilterns) is currently selling Sollya heterophylla.


My Sollya has been out over winter for three years now . I grew it from
a cutting but apart for a little damage to the end of the stems it comes
through fine. It's not against the edge of the house and is apparently
healthy again this year.

You're lucky! I lost one of those in quite a mild frost in the
courtyard of my Jersey garden. We have friends who grow it
successfully in Salcombe but their garden is right on the sea.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon

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Janet Tweedy wrote:
In article , echinosum
writes

More dishonest is selling tender shrubs mixed in with the hardy shrubs
and without giving any info on them. My local garden centre (in the
Chilterns) is currently selling Sollya heterophylla.


My Sollya has been out over winter for three years now . I grew it from
a cutting but apart for a little damage to the end of the stems it comes
through fine. It's not against the edge of the house and is apparently
healthy again this year.

You're lucky! I lost one of those in quite a mild frost in the
courtyard of my Jersey garden. We have friends who grow it
successfully in Salcombe but their garden is right on the sea.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon

Mine died this year :~( not really hardy just something worth trying some
years.

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)

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Janet Tweedy wrote:
In article , echinosum
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More dishonest is selling tender shrubs mixed in with the hardy shrubs
and without giving any info on them. My local garden centre (in the
Chilterns) is currently selling Sollya heterophylla.


My Sollya has been out over winter for three years now . I grew it from
a cutting but apart for a little damage to the end of the stems it
comes
through fine. It's not against the edge of the house and is apparently
healthy again this year.

You're lucky! I lost one of those in quite a mild frost in the
courtyard of my Jersey garden. We have friends who grow it
successfully in Salcombe but their garden is right on the sea.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon

Mine died this year :~( not really hardy just something worth trying some
years.

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)


I was given three small Sollya in a pot many years ago. I never found a spot
for them so they have lived in the same pot and formed a compact very woody
shrub which appears to be impervious to frost. On the downside it is not
prolific in flowers.

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Janet Tweedy wrote:
In article , echinosum
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More dishonest is selling tender shrubs mixed in with the hardy
shrubs
and without giving any info on them. My local garden centre (in the
Chilterns) is currently selling Sollya heterophylla.


My Sollya has been out over winter for three years now . I grew it
from
a cutting but apart for a little damage to the end of the stems it
comes
through fine. It's not against the edge of the house and is
apparently
healthy again this year.

You're lucky! I lost one of those in quite a mild frost in the
courtyard of my Jersey garden. We have friends who grow it
successfully in Salcombe but their garden is right on the sea.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon

Mine died this year :~( not really hardy just something worth trying
some
years.

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)


I was given three small Sollya in a pot many years ago. I never found a
spot
for them so they have lived in the same pot and formed a compact very
woody
shrub which appears to be impervious to frost. On the downside it is not
prolific in flowers.

Maybe not enough sun? they flower 365 days of the year (which is why they
are sometimes worth a gamble)

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)