Thunbergia/Ipomea good bed-mates?
 

I'm just about to plant about 15 thunbergia "Susie mixed" into their normal
flowering container - a 30cm round terracotta bowl (with appropriate
drainage). They'll be growing up a 1.5m (approx) willow (I think) wigwam,
and last year were perfectly happy doing that.

However, I've also got a dozen or so Ipomea "Crimson Rambler" and whilst
most of these will go into one or two other containers to grow up trellis on
the wall/fence, I was thinking about including a few of them with the
Thunbergia to add a little variety to the display.

However, would this be such a good idea? I'm worried that one or other of
the plants might be a little too vigourous and crowd out the other one. I
haven't grown this particular Ipomea before and don't know quite how
vigorous it is, nor how many to include if it is suitable. 3 or 4 in the
mix with the 15 thunbergia?

Any thoughts?


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Richard Sampson

email me at
richard at olifant d-ot co do-t uk

Thunbergia/Ipomea good bed-mates?
 

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RichardS wrote:

I'm just about to plant about 15 thunbergia "Susie mixed" into their normal
flowering container - a 30cm round terracotta bowl (with appropriate
drainage). They'll be growing up a 1.5m (approx) willow (I think) wigwam,
and last year were perfectly happy doing that.

However, I've also got a dozen or so Ipomea "Crimson Rambler" and whilst
most of these will go into one or two other containers to grow up trellis on
the wall/fence, I was thinking about including a few of them with the
Thunbergia to add a little variety to the display.

However, would this be such a good idea? I'm worried that one or other of
the plants might be a little too vigourous and crowd out the other one. I
haven't grown this particular Ipomea before and don't know quite how
vigorous it is, nor how many to include if it is suitable. 3 or 4 in the
mix with the 15 thunbergia?

Assuming that it is one of the common annual Ipomoeas, then it
doesn't have a huge root system. How tall it grows will depend
on a lot of things, but it probably won't strangle Thunbergia
(assumed to be alata).


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Thunbergia/Ipomea good bed-mates?
 

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In article ,
RichardS wrote:

I'm just about to plant about 15 thunbergia "Susie mixed" into their
normal
flowering container - a 30cm round terracotta bowl (with appropriate
drainage). They'll be growing up a 1.5m (approx) willow (I think)
wigwam,
and last year were perfectly happy doing that.

However, I've also got a dozen or so Ipomea "Crimson Rambler" and whilst
most of these will go into one or two other containers to grow up trellis
on
the wall/fence, I was thinking about including a few of them with the
Thunbergia to add a little variety to the display.

However, would this be such a good idea? I'm worried that one or other
of
the plants might be a little too vigourous and crowd out the other one.
I
haven't grown this particular Ipomea before and don't know quite how
vigorous it is, nor how many to include if it is suitable. 3 or 4 in the
mix with the 15 thunbergia?

Assuming that it is one of the common annual Ipomoeas, then it
doesn't have a huge root system. How tall it grows will depend
on a lot of things, but it probably won't strangle Thunbergia
(assumed to be alata).


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

thanks, Nick.

Yes, I digged the packet out and checked - it is T. Alata.

I'll give it a go and see what happens, my guess is about 3 Ipomea plants in
the mix should be enough to fill things out a bit and give a variety of
colour in there.

This year I've got a digital camera to take pictures of the results, so
future year's planting shoudl be a little more informed than the current
reliance on (vague) memory!

--
Richard Sampson

email me at
richard at olifant d-ot co do-t uk