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Chad
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:03 pm Posts: 2343 Location: Inland Cornwall UK
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Tropaeolum smithii
This summer growing species is new to me this year from .
In my ignorance I had expected a delicate though summer grower and gave it a 20 litre pot with insubstantial canes in the same way I grow the winter growing T.tricolor.
I was wrong. It destroyed the insubstantial canes and kept going by hanging on to anything it could find to get to about ten feet. Barely slowed down by an attack of cabbage white caterpillars it has been in full flower for months.
Has anyone tried it 'liberated' from a pot? Is it destined to be a thug like T.ciliatum?
Nick also had in a pot and on show this year Tropaeolum pentaphyllum subsp. megapetalum. It is a summer growing species unlike the 'type' which is just coming up now. Megapetalum has similar flowers enhanced by a pair of surprised 'eyebrow' petals. I'm hoping it did well for him and I can buy one of those next year.
Is anyone growing, or know of a source for, any of the other summer growers? The net offers tantalising pictures of rarities like Tropaeolum adpressum, deckerianum, fintelmannii, umbellatum and so on.
Chad.
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Sun Nov 13, 2016 9:59 pm |
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charliepridham
Joined: Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:42 pm Posts: 1925 Location: Cornwall
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Re: Tropaeolum smithii
Looks wonderful, summer flowering should make it more useful, what sort of root system?
_________________ Charlie, Growing climbers in Cornwall http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
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Mon Nov 14, 2016 1:16 pm |
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Chad
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:03 pm Posts: 2343 Location: Inland Cornwall UK
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Re: Tropaeolum smithii
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Tue Nov 15, 2016 7:56 pm |
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