Tropaeolum, was BX donation Information

Jane McGary janemcgary@earthlink.net
Mon, 04 Nov 2019 08:34:57 PST
Re Tropaeolum hookerianum, it grows in areas that experience slight 
frost. I consider the native climate much like that of the middle 
foothills of the Sierra Nevada (California) east of say Fresno. One 
piece of advice: if you give it something to climb on, use a twiggy 
branch, not metal. I had some tropaeolums die after being frozen on 
metal supports.

I saw a photo of T. brachyceras flowering as a pretty dome and wrote to 
the grower in England to find out how she did it. She told me she had 
made a dome of chicken wire over the top of the pot and trained the 
stems round and round on it. This yellow species can become very large 
with time here.

Jane McGary


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