Re: Fwd: podranea ricasoliana

Indeed Podranea needs to be fastened to its support, it should not have any tendrils. Regarding hardiness, where exactly does Jill live? Parts of San Diego County (my garden included) do get winter freezes and it could be that Jill's new house gets enough freeze to kill the top growth on the vine. Alternatively, the previous homeowners might have cut it back in winter and the neighbor never noticed them doing it.

Hope this helps

Nan

PS Jill, if you don't already have a copy of Sunset Western Gardens please do go pick one up. It is an invaluable resource for us So Cal gardeners. (Now for the shameless self -promotion) And you might look at my articles every month in San Diego Home Garden Lifestyles Magazine (though I've never written about Prodranea)


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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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