Colquhounia coccinea

Nan - I can't find it in my few US plant-availability books (ie
Barbara Barton or Andersen or my out of date edition of Harkness) but
surely SOMEone must offer it? Anyone able to help? 

I can't believe it simply isn't grown  commercially in the USA at all.
It's such a showy plant in flower, and it flowers at such a desirable
time of the year, that for a nurseryman in a suitable climate it's as
good as money in the bank...! (One of the best specimens I know in the
UK is in fact AT a nursery: at Bleddyn & Sue Wynne-Jones's Crug Farm
Nursery in North Wales: 9ft high and rising, despite being cut back
hard every year. A Welsh friend tells me that it's better this year
than ever before, simply 9' of flowers.)

There's also C.c. var. mollis (syn C.c. var vestita) with orange and
yellow flowers, just as desirable. 

My ancient Hillier tells me there are five other spp in the genus but
I've never seen any of them. Has anyone else? Are they all Himalayan?
Are the others from impossibly low-level habitats?

It feels like a climate suitable for Himalayans here at the moment:
humid, sticky, breathless, air like grey crepe. If the sun ever fights
its way through....
Tim Longville
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