Re: Podranea ricasoliana
So that's what you're all talking about! I always thought of it as Bignonia.
'Contessa Sara' as we call it in Corfu, was still in full flower there when I
was on an all too short visit at the end of November, its effect spoiled by the
yellowing drying leaves of the wisteria to which it is wedded for life. My
dream is to combine a new one with Thunbegia grandiflora--cuttings promised by
Janet Blenkinship, are you there Janet?--for a new pergola that can also be
admired from above.
Cali Doxiadis
In rainy windy NY.
Gordon Walker wrote:
> "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
>
> --
> 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.
