Re: Iochroma australis

I clicked on the link and it is the plant I was referring to! Mine flowers in June and has fruit now, more or less ripe. The A arboreus I referred to is a slightly more lax shrub, with softer foliage and is in flower now.

Cheers,

Gill Pound

----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent A. Hine" <brent.hine@ubc.ca>
To: <gill.cei@wanadoo.fr>; <tsmyth@eclipse.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: Iochroma australis


Hello,

I manage an alpine/rock garden in Vancouver Canada. In it we've being very successfully growing Iochroma australe
since 1990. If you open the link, you can view our plants. Please read the comments immediately below the photo and you'll note the plant (at least, this one) is hardier than generally supposed. It becomes deciduous in Autumn and makes the pea-sized seed capsules. It also makes an interesting espalier on a nearby fence. Just to confirm: this is the same plant you are both referring to?
Feel free to pass this on to the meditteranean plants forum.

http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/2005/06/iochroma_austra.php

Cheers,
--
Brent A. Hine
Curator, E.H. Lohbrunner Alpine Garden
University of British Columbia Botanical Garden
and Centre for Plant Research

brent.hine@ubc.ca
ph: 604-822-4662
fax:604-822-2016
http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org

6804 SW Marine Drive
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
V6T 1Z4



Gill Pound wrote:
/I have grown Acnistus/Iochroma australis from seed - harvested from a friend's garden locally and sown in autumn, no special treatment and it germinated easily, with the bonus that some of the seedlings were the white form. Curiously the white form seems to be slightly more vigourous than the blue. Both seem winter hardy here in the Languedoc, I have plants which have passed the last six winters outside, including some fairly severe cold spells - I certainly expect -8°C at some point during the winter although our winters are generally drier than in the UK I also have a similar but not identical plant that I grew from seed labelled Acnistus arboreus which is also winter hardy./
// /Gill Pound/
/Nr Carcassonne/
/S France/

----- Original Message -----
*From:* Tristram Smyth <t*@eclipse.co.uk>
*To:* 'Medit-plants Forum' <m*@ucdavis.edu>
*Sent:* Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:08 AM
*Subject:* Iochroma australis

Here in the UK we have, at the moment, to grow this as an
overwintered plant in the unheated, but frost-free, greenhouse. It
goes outside in a sheltered site in summer. I have numerous fruits
that have formed this summer, of large pea size, due no doubt to the
exceptionally hot July temperatures we have seen here.

What is the best advice of germinating seed from Iochroma? When
should it be sown – and after what period of ripening? Does it need
a re-fridgeration period before germination? It is a plant that is
not difficult to propagate by cuttings but I have no experience of
seed sowing since it doesn’t usually set seed here.

Tristram
















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