Tropaeolum notes

D Anderson perdy@mts.net
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:42:56 PST
I started Tropaeolum pentaphylum last in February.  Here is what it looked 
like in end of September.  I did cut it back later
and it's already growing alot of new shoots.  It didn't bloom last year, so 
I'm hoping it does this year.

 http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/…

Thanks for all the information that everyone does provide here on the group.

:) Donna in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jane McGary" <janemcgary@earthlink.net>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: [pbs] Tropaeolum notes


> Paul in Canberra wrote,
> Tropaeolum tricolor isn't bothered by -8 or -9'C in the slightest.  I grow 
> it
>>outside here, both in 8 inch black plastic pots and in the
>>ground.  No problemo at all here at least, but obviously I can't
>>vouch for any colder.
>
> An interesting thing about this species is its wide distribution in the
> wild. You can see it right on the coastal strip where there probably is
> never anything approaching frost, and up into the Andean foothills
> flowering within the winter snow zone, in really nasty chilly weather. I
> suspect seeds from the populations in colder areas would produce hardier
> plants than seeds from the coast. I don't know where the material in
> general cultivation came from originally, though.
>
> Like Diana I prefer twiggy branches to chicken wire supports for the small
> trops. When we get a severe cold snap and I have to lay microfoam sheets
> over my bulbs, I carefully lift the trop supports and lay them flat, then
> reset them when I remove the foam. You can manipulate the threadlike stems
> quite a bit without harming them. T. brachyceras seems to be the most
> cold-hardy species I have here. I've recently seen it on Dutch wholesale
> lists, so perhaps Russell Stafford (Odyssey Bulbs) will be bringing in 
> tubers?
>
> Jane McGary
> Northwestern Oregon, USA
>
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