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'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
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Very impressive. Remind me, where did you say that was?

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Bob Hobden
17mls W. of London.UK

On 1/8/07 11:41, in article , "Bob Hobden"
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Very impressive. Remind me, where did you say that was?

Jersey, in a sheltered and sunny angle of the house. What I find
interesting about it is that most of the pelargoniums I've seen 'climbing'
have been the single flowered ones I associate with French gardens. This
one was just one that came into a planted basket given to my ex-mil about 15
years ago. She must have liked it enough to get the gardener to grow it on
and chance it outside!
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'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

Very nice Sacha - looks very much like 'La France'. It is vigorous
enough to do that and was very widely grown 15 - 20 years ago,
appearing in almost every hanging basket. 'Mexicana' (red and white
semi-double) and 'La Roulette' (crimson semi-double) are as vigorous
and I've grown both as 8ft. pillars in big planters outside.

On 1/8/07 22:30, in article
, "Dave Poole"
wrote:

Very nice Sacha - looks very much like 'La France'. It is vigorous
enough to do that and was very widely grown 15 - 20 years ago,
appearing in almost every hanging basket. 'Mexicana' (red and white
semi-double) and 'La Roulette' (crimson semi-double) are as vigorous
and I've grown both as 8ft. pillars in big planters outside.

David, that's wonderful and thank you so much. I can't find P. La France on
Google imaging so do you have a suggestion of a source for a photograph?
Would Fibrex have this, perhaps? The 'at least 15 years' comes from one of
the gardeners who started working there 15 years ago and found that
Pelargonium already established. It is *just* possible that if it's P La
France that is a sort of present-giving reference just a few years earlier
from my sil's French family to the Jersey based family.
Acquaintance of yours was in yesterday, Peter from way up north, with his
sister. Very nice people.

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'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

Sacha wrote:

... I can't find P. La France on
Google imaging so do you have a suggestion of a source for a photograph?

Unfortunately I don't have a pic and having just looked, there's one
on Fibrex's website though the colour is a bit 'off'. 'La France' is
an old variety that did the rounds for many years. I seem to remember
Hazel Key being quite fond of it, although it was rather too 'leggy'
as a young plant. If you could see a split cane sticking out of the
side of one of Fibrex's hanging baskets, you could guarantee 'La
France' or the bizarre 'Crocodile' was tied to it.

There was a fabulous old dear called Monica Bennett who raised
Pelargoniums near Cradley Heath in the Midlands. She had an
incredible nursery brimming with all manner of species and hybrids and
her passion for them was always inspiring. Her main interest was with
the 'zonals' and she raised some very fine, large flowered singles as
well as some notable dwarfs. I used to pop over for a chat and a
cuppa whenever I could and was often tempted to stock some of her
'specials' at my nursery. For reasons that escape me now, that never
happened. She once told me that if she were starting all over again
she might work with the ivy-leafs and use 'La France' as her starting
point. I couldn't disagree with her logic. Back in the 60's and early
70's it was one of the best and is still worth growing today.

Acquaintance of yours was in yesterday, Peter from way up north, with his
sister. Very nice people.

Peter of Salvia-collecting fame? I think his sister lives in
Ashburton or somewhere on that side of the A38 and I understand he
comes down several times a year. .

Hi..

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Thanks, I really enjoyed the pics..!
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cu
Marco, dreaming of a tiny cutting for the unheated
conservatory..

On 2/8/07 17:41, in article , "Marco
Schwarz" wrote:

Hi..

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Thanks, I really enjoyed the pics..!

Glad you liked them. We'll take some more cuttings next week when we're
over there, so you never know your luck...!
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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:28:05 +0100, Sacha
wrote:

On 2/8/07 17:41, in article , "Marco
Schwarz" wrote:

Hi..

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Thanks, I really enjoyed the pics..!

Glad you liked them. We'll take some more cuttings next week when we're
over there, so you never know your luck...!

If you're going into productionto sell them for next year Sacha,
please put me on the list.

Pam in Bristol

On 2/8/07 21:55, in article , "Pam
Moore" wrote:

On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:28:05 +0100, Sacha
wrote:

On 2/8/07 17:41, in article , "Marco
Schwarz" wrote:

Hi..

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Thanks, I really enjoyed the pics..!

Glad you liked them. We'll take some more cuttings next week when we're
over there, so you never know your luck...!

If you're going into productionto sell them for next year Sacha,
please put me on the list.

Pam in Bristol

I'll certainly let you know about them, Pam. But you do realise it's not
some kind of 'miracle' climber! It might 'do' and it might not. It's in
optimum conditions there but I must say that it's a lovely sight.
--
Sacha
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(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

Sacha wrote:

On 2/8/07 21:55, in article , "Pam
Moore" wrote:

If you're going into productionto sell them for next year Sacha,
please put me on the list.

I'll certainly let you know about them, Pam. But you do realise it's not
some kind of 'miracle' climber! It might 'do' and it might not.

Pelargoniums have a reputation for not being too difficult to grow from
cuts. Some people say even the pruned bits regularly start growing
again. I guess you would know.


Greg

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No ficus = no spam

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It must be wonderful in full flower!
There is a similar one in the village of Lelant in west Cornwall, see
http://i14.tinypic.com/4qp0jeq.jpg. It's going over now, but it was
quite magnificent a few weeks ago; a wall of silvery pink. The owner
didn't know the name, only that it was planted as a cutting a few
years ago, that it was growing up through a Russian Vine, and that
they did nothing to it.


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Chris

E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net

On 5/8/07 13:40, in article ,
"Chris Hogg" wrote:

On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:05:46 +0100, Sacha
wrote:

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It must be wonderful in full flower!
There is a similar one in the village of Lelant in west Cornwall, see
http://i14.tinypic.com/4qp0jeq.jpg. It's going over now, but it was
quite magnificent a few weeks ago; a wall of silvery pink. The owner
didn't know the name, only that it was planted as a cutting a few
years ago, that it was growing up through a Russian Vine, and that
they did nothing to it.

I think this might get the same treatment, i.e. none. ;-) We're going to
be there this coming week so I'll ask what, if anything is done to it.
The one in Cornwall looks very similar. Did you look at Fibrex nurseries
pic of La France? http://www.fibrex.co.uk/search.asp
In a similar vein as to the unexpected, there's a cottage at Blackpool Sands
in Devon that was occupied by the head gardener to the local estate. It's
right on the beach and luckily for passersby, on the bend of a road. Its
walls are covered in passiflorae supposedly too tender to grow outdoors
here. The gardener was a friend of Ray's and had originally worked in the
temperate house at Kew so had amassed a lovely collection of Passiflorae. A
friends of his gave Ray one donkey's years ago which he said was the now
'missing' P. 'John Innes'. David Poole still thinks it's that but other
experts disagree. Passiflorae seem to be among the plants that can be
argued over indefinitely!

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Sacha
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(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'