Re: Podranea ricasoliana
Hi,John- I believe the common name is "Pt. St. Johm's Creeer" and althouhj
not tender the blooms come at the very end of the summer in zones 16/17.
The lovely liottle fat
tubas are a wonderful shade of salmon with yellow markings in the throat.
Two close friemds who live in Africa grow it as a ground cover facing
south, mow it at
the beginning of spring and get blooms till the days get very short. They
love it and the
flowers are showier from the angle of repose. It easily survived 22F in my
garden on a west wall but since it produced so little bloom for lb. of
foliage I rid myself of it after 23 years. It has those trifid hooks and
climbs any textured surface. The foliage is matte and not very lush green
but the flowers are definitely worth in. Distictis 'Riversii' can be grown
here on protected east walls and puts on a longer and more powerful show.
Cheers from Kensington
Michael D. Barclay
operatic@earthlink.net
Gordon Walker wrote:
> I recently discovered a large speciment of this "trumpet vine" <snip>
> Podranea ricolisiana. <Any inflo.>
> Gordon Walker
> France
