Re: Fwd: podranea ricasoliana

Podranea does not have tendrils, at least the plants I grow here don't, nor
did the plants I grew in Palm Springs. In Palm Springs I seem to recall the
plant going deciduous in colder winters, otherwise it was evergreen. It
certainly never died back. San Diego is mild enough it should stay
evergreen.

Here in Albuquerque we were able to keep plants alive outside for about
three years until the fence it grew on was removed, along with the plants.
They did freeze down to the tubers each winter. Unfortunately, it never
performed well outside since it seemed to take forever to recover and
bloom. Usually by late September it would produce a few flowers, but the
plants never obtained any size. Inside the conservatory is another story,
and the plant grows one foot per week throughout the growing season slowing
down with the shorter days.

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Jon M. Stewart
Associate Curator
Rio Grande Botanic Garden
2601 Central Ave NW
Albuquerque, NM 87104
505/848-7148, fax: 848-7192
http://www.cabq.gov/biopark


                                                                                                  
                    Diane Whitehead                                                               
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posted for Jill by Diane Whitehead



>Envelope-to: voltaire@islandnet.com
>Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 19:01:54 PDT
>Reply-To: VCJill@aol.com
>
>
>
>I'm not a member, but you can sign me up if you like.  My name is
>Jill Van Cleve; I'm in San Diego.
>Mostly tho, I just have a Q about Port St. John's Creeper.  I just
>moved into a new house, and took a sprig of a lovely, fragrant
>"vine" I found there to be IDed,  Was told it wa the above-named,
>and indeed the one-gallon specimens for sale matched in flower,
>leaf, etc.  But as I read, I encounter references to "tendrils"--I
>find none--and "evergreen"--yet my fence & flower-sharing neighbor
>insists it goes "abswolutely dead" in winter.  "You would never
>think it would come back, alive, and flower, the next year."
>What's this?  Is my neighbor mistaken?  Do I not know a tendril when
>I see one?  Was the ID in SD incorrect?
>Thank you,
>Jill
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