Re: Podranea ricasoliana
"f. cardama" wrote:
>
> gordon
> I grow a podranea on a norteast facing wall.
> it is very vigorous and takes well to hard pruning to a framework since it
> flowers at the end of current year shoots.
> it needs no water once established.
> I have seen it growing in morocco a lot. climbing up very tall buildings.
> I get the occasional frost not every year.
> I prune it hard each spring, just as it starts into growth.
> very colourful in autumn. in fact, it has flowers still, though somewhat
> faded.
> francisco
> south of barcelona
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Many thanks Francisco and all the others for the information.
The plant in question was still in flower yesterday with perhaps a
couple of dozen blooms.
We haven't had a frost yet this year; the weather has been unusually
mild with predominance of the "vent marin" off the sea and very few days
of the piercingly cold "tramontane".
As regards shyness of flowering, the temperatures here in the summer are
around 30°C(86°F) or higher and I have recently obtained from the
Filippi nursery the variety "Comtesse Sarah" which is said to flower
earlier and abundantly.
