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Ping Sacha - Erythrina crista-galli
I see you offer this. Does it flower for you? I grew one in a pot for
years, and it never flowered. Last year I bought one at Pan-Global, and put it outside in a south-facing warm, sunny spot. It has more than doubled in diameter (it's now around 6 cm), and has put out at least a dozen stems around 150 cm long, but no sign of flower buds. -- Jeff |
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Ping Sacha - Erythrina crista-galli
On 2014-08-03 20:56:01 +0000, Jeff Layman said:
I see you offer this. Does it flower for you? I grew one in a pot for years, and it never flowered. Last year I bought one at Pan-Global, and put it outside in a south-facing warm, sunny spot. It has more than doubled in diameter (it's now around 6 cm), and has put out at least a dozen stems around 150 cm long, but no sign of flower buds. Ray put one outside last autumn and it's about 6' tall and as you describe, has put on a lot of new growth. He'll check it tomorrow to see if it has any buds. The mature one we have indoors has buds and flowers regularly and generously. One of its 'babies' flowered earlier this year at a height of 3', under glass. Roy Lancaster told us he'd had one flowering outside in his Hampshire garden then lost it to hard frosts. Ray thinks that Pan-Global is now selling only seed of this because of the expense of keeping it in flowering/cuttings mode under glass. I'll let you know what we find on our outdoor one tomorrow, if anything. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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Ping Sacha - Erythrina crista-galli
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Jeff Layman wrote: I see you offer this. Does it flower for you? I grew one in a pot for years, and it never flowered. Last year I bought one at Pan-Global, and put it outside in a south-facing warm, sunny spot. It has more than doubled in diameter (it's now around 6 cm), and has put out at least a dozen stems around 150 cm long, but no sign of flower buds. It flowers for me, though so late that it relies on a warm autumn. It has no flower buds yet. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Ping Sacha - Erythrina crista-galli
"Jeff Layman" wrote in message ... I see you offer this. Does it flower for you? I grew one in a pot for years, and it never flowered. Last year I bought one at Pan-Global, and put it outside in a south-facing warm, sunny spot. It has more than doubled in diameter (it's now around 6 cm), and has put out at least a dozen stems around 150 cm long, but no sign of flower buds. -- Jeff Jeff, they often flower very late in the season, Sep/Oct being typical, two things you can do help, first keep snails and slugs off the overwinter below ground buds, and second try and get things moving as quickly as possible in the spring. Although this is a tree or large shrub it behaves like a herbaceous perennial here in the UK, heavy mulching in winter and/or a cloche in the spring can gain a vital couple of weeks. The Garden House and Rosemoor both have this doing OK, neither garden would regard themselves as mild but in both cases the Erythrina is at the base of a warm wall. -- Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella and Lapageria rosea cvs http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk |
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Ping Sacha - Erythrina crista-galli
On 03/08/2014 21:56, Jeff Layman wrote:
I see you offer this. Does it flower for you? I grew one in a pot for years, and it never flowered. Last year I bought one at Pan-Global, and put it outside in a south-facing warm, sunny spot. It has more than doubled in diameter (it's now around 6 cm), and has put out at least a dozen stems around 150 cm long, but no sign of flower buds. Thanks for all the replies. It is at the base of a dwarf-south facing patio wall, and about 3 metres from the south-facing wall of the house here in South Hampshire. It was mulched in winter, but there was almost no frost here anyway. As other plants seem to be weeks ahead, I had hoped it might show some flower buds by now. Some more patience required, methinks! -- Jeff |
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