Re: How to care for Senecio tamoides ?

Dear Moira,
You are certainly right about the plant if it is
Canary Creeper/Nasturtium...  I didn't really pay
attention to the original  post with the common name,
but instead caught the botanical name and was
responding to that.  The Senecie tamoides is 
evergreen except with hard frosts, and should not die
down to the ground unless it has frozen.  Thanks for
pointing it out to me, sometimes I don't process
everything as I should when I am responding to things
too quickly.

--- Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> david feix wrote:
>  
> > It sounds to me like it might be infected with
> > something, and the plant can be easily rooted from
> a
> > healthy cutting taken from a part of the plant
> which
> > is not so affected, but you might want to start
> > several new cuttings as soon as possible.  It is
> also
> > fairly easy from seed, if it had already set some.
>  I
> > have been growing the plant for several years, and
> > love it's abundant fall/winter bloom, but have
> also
> > noticed that it can seem to just"up and die" after
> > several years of perfectly happy growth.
> > Alternatively, you might try just cutting it back
> > hard, and see if it gives you some new growth...
> > --- Krzysztof Kozminski <kk@kozminski.com> wrote:
> > > As the subject states: what do I do to keep my
> > > "canary creeper" happy. I
> > > have it in full sun, well drained, getting about
> a
> > > gallon of water once
> > > a week. Planted this fall, was happy and
> increasing
> > > over winter, but
> > > nowadays half of it has shriveled and turned
> black.
> > > Any ideas what is
> > > missing here? Too much sun? Too much water? Not
> > > enough water? None of
> > > the 19 pages I found on the web mention its
> > > requirements...
> 
> Just one small problem
> I do wonder what plant is actually meant by "Canary
> Creeper" in the
> original posting.  In my part of the world the name
> belongs not to any
> Senecio but to Tropaeolum polyphyllum, a
> clear-yellow flowered perennial
> relative of the garden "nasturtium". This is a
> creeper which grows from
> a tuber and the top growth usually dies away yearly
> at the end of the
> flowering season. Provided the climate is reasonably
> mild and the site
> well-drained it will shoot again the following
> spring. If it should be
> this plant which is meant, it is probably only doing
> what comes
> naturally..
> 
> Moira
> 
> Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
> Wainuiomata, New Zealand. (on the "Ring of Fire" in
> the SW Pacific).
> Lat. 41:16S Long. 174:58E. Climate:
> Mediterranean/Temperate
> 
> 


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