Re: Anisodontea hypomadarum
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Anisodontea hypomadarum
- From: t*@eddy.u-net.com (Tim Longville)
- Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 08:47:45 GMT
- References: <390C8FC2.B2F53D80@dnai.com>
Richard -
>Is this likely to sprout and regrow from
>the break or below ?
Answer, usually, yes! And I hope your friend has turned the top-growth
into cuttings, which (again usually) root easily.
On the subject of anisodonteas, do Californians or genuine
Mediterranean Mediterraneans also grow A. elegans? If not, permit me
to recommend it. Grey-green, finely cut foliage, large open white
flowers with pink central markings, on a loose stylishly floppetty
shrub to (under glass in a cool northern climate) around 3ft. No seed
set here as yet but as easy from cuttings as any of the others. I grew
mine from Silverhill seed. I don't think it's commercially available,
either as seed or as plants, here in the UK. Pity since it makes a
very easy greenhouse or conservatory or sunny windowsill plant, even
if not possible in the open ground. (No anisodontea is for me in the
wet north-west though I think some have been managed, at least for a
while, in hot spots in Devon and Cornwall.)
Tim Longville
