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Passiflora mollissima
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| It was a really shocking day today, wet and windy and horrible altogether.
I pricked out more foxgloves than I ever want to see again...... So I do
remember clearly the customers who asked us if they could grow the above
Passiflora outdoors. Has anyone brought it through a winter anywhere in the
British Isles AND had a good flowering season afterwards?
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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'
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| MikeCT 2007-10-29, 9:25 am |
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"Sacha" wrote in a message:
> ...... So I do remember clearly the customers who asked us if they could
> grow the above Passiflora outdoors. Has anyone brought it through a
> winter anywhere in the British Isles AND had a good flowering season
> afterwards?
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I couldn't get P. mollissima to survive a winter in my heated conservatory
let alone flower the season afterwards.
I found it a very difficult Passiflora variety.
MikeCT
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| Charlie Pridham 2007-10-29, 9:25 am |
| In article <UDhVi.581$pg.251@newsfe6-win.ntli.net>, MikeCT@virginsnow.net
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> "Sacha" wrote in a message:
> I couldn't get P. mollissima to survive a winter in my heated conservatory
> let alone flower the season afterwards.
> I found it a very difficult Passiflora variety.
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> MikeCT
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This grows and flowers in my unheated greenhouse, key to success is low
summer temperatures and dryish roots in winter, However I have just seen
5 year old plant outside at Tregrehane growing on a south wall in a
walled garden, so they will do outside allthough I can only dream of
walls such as that one!
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Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea
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| On 29/10/07 10:24, in article
MPG.218fc51dc68e18829896bf@News.Individual.NET, "Charlie Pridham"
<charlie@roselandhouse.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <UDhVi.581$pg.251@newsfe6-win.ntli.net>, MikeCT@virginsnow.net
> says...
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> This grows and flowers in my unheated greenhouse, key to success is low
> summer temperatures and dryish roots in winter, However I have just seen
> 5 year old plant outside at Tregrehane growing on a south wall in a
> walled garden, so they will do outside allthough I can only dream of
> walls such as that one!
Ah, that's really interesting, Charlie and just what I wondered about. We
grow it here in the bigger greenhouses, where it's kept just frost-free but
can't imagine it surviving outside. We could ask a friend in Salcombe to
try it out for us! We had a friend from Australia here the other day who
was talking about eating the fruits off hers - made us green with envy!
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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'
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