Watching the RHS Hyde Hall programme last night, I was a bit surprised
to see them re-planting their blue and white section, which was to
last several years, and using Sollya heterophylla. This is a
beautiful shrub but is not hardy and only survives down to zero.
I had a beautiful specimen, which I had in a very large pot, and was
always taken inside for the winter. This winter it was inside as
usual and protected with horticural fleece, but because we had two
particularly cold snaps, I lost it. Having lived in Essex for a long
time I cannot imagine it surviving a winter outside there.

No mention was made of its hardiness or lack of it and I can imagine
people rushing out to buy it, planting it out and then losing it. A
pity RdeT or the RHS didn't say, particularly after making so much of
it.

Iris McCanna



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