Re: Tecomaria Capensis
- Subject: Re: Tecomaria Capensis
- From: T* a* M* R*
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:16:49 +1200
Charl de Winnaar wrote:
>
> Does anyone have experience with Tecomaria Capensis and picket fences?
>
> I have planted several of these plants alongside a timber fence and the
> shoots need support in order to cover it. I want to thread them through
> the fence but fear that as the plant ages the shoots will thicken and
> eventually start to pull the fence apart. How thick do these shoots
> become?
Charl
I haven't had any personal experience of T capensisin recent times, but
unless your pickets are set unusually far apart, I anm pretty sure the
stems will fatten enough in time to give trouble. Growing almost any
climber where it can make its way between boards, either vertical or
horizontal, is virtually always a mistake, damaging the fence and later
strangling the stems involved.
Could I suggest putting up something like chicken wire on the inside of
the fence to support the plants and if possible isolating all this from
the pickets either with strong horticultural plastic film or some sort
of metal or plastic sheet.
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan
Wainuiomata NZ,
where it's Summer in January and Winter in July.
