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Erythrina crista-galli
Mine has just developed flower-buds, for the first time! What chances do I have of seeing flowers this year, in Cambridge? If anyone else wants to grow it and thinks it's too tender (well, it is, really), please ask what I do. Alternatively, if anyone has succeeded with it in the colder parts of the UK, please give me any hints! Yes, I grow it herbaceously, as you would expect. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On 13/10/08 09:29, in article , "Jeff Layman"
wrote: wrote: Mine has just developed flower-buds, for the first time! What chances do I have of seeing flowers this year, in Cambridge? If anyone else wants to grow it and thinks it's too tender (well, it is, really), please ask what I do. Alternatively, if anyone has succeeded with it in the colder parts of the UK, please give me any hints! Yes, I grow it herbaceously, as you would expect. Regards, Nick Maclaren. Heh. Lucky you. Mine's about 20 years from seed now, and still hasn't flowered. I live in hope. We grow it but only in a glasshouse. Nick's account makes me feel we should try it in a sheltered place outside. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon (new website online) |
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Sacha wrote: We grow it but only in a glasshouse. Nick's account makes me feel we should try it in a sheltered place outside. Here is what I think I have discovered! It isn't protection from cold it needs but summer warmth, so a sun trap is the best location. That is where I saw it, but can't now remember which botanic garden. It doesn't start growing until the soil gets really quite warm - i.e. VERY late. It didn't do at all well until I started covering it in winter with a 2' square pyramid made of wood, double-glazed with polythene. An ordinary cloche would probably do as well :-) The point of that is more to protect it from the wet than the cold as such, though reducing the latter doubtless helps. And, of course, I put a few buckets of gravel 1-2' down when I planted it, to ensure good drainage. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On 14/10/08 08:57, in article ,
" wrote: In article , Sacha wrote: We grow it but only in a glasshouse. Nick's account makes me feel we should try it in a sheltered place outside. Here is what I think I have discovered! It isn't protection from cold it needs but summer warmth, so a sun trap is the best location. That is where I saw it, but can't now remember which botanic garden. It doesn't start growing until the soil gets really quite warm - i.e. VERY late. It didn't do at all well until I started covering it in winter with a 2' square pyramid made of wood, double-glazed with polythene. An ordinary cloche would probably do as well :-) The point of that is more to protect it from the wet than the cold as such, though reducing the latter doubtless helps. And, of course, I put a few buckets of gravel 1-2' down when I planted it, to ensure good drainage. Regards, Nick Maclaren. I'll pass it all on Nick and see if Ray thinks it's worth a try. It has to be said that this summer would probably have seen it pass out with sheer boredom while waiting to flower! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon (new website online) |
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In article ,
Jeff Layman wrote: It isn't protection from cold it needs but summer warmth, so a sun trap is the best location. So why did yours flower this year, but not last? ;-) A bigger boss. My earlier problems (with several plants, in pots and in the ground) were that they didn't make enough growth in the summer, and so were set back to square one by each winter. My point there is that it is VERY late coming into growth - and I mean June - unless it is mollycoddled. It does OK in the USA, because the soil warms up so much faster when spring starts. It's not quite as late as Passiflora incarnata, but isn't far off. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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