Does anyone grow this? I saw some amazing specimens on holiday in Norfolk in the summer and fancy giving it a go. It's rated as half hardy, I'm in Bucks so we don't get extreme cold.
No but one of my neighbours always has a few on the go. Last year he had one up to his roof! (Nottingham). Think the key is to always have a few under cover as insurance in case the frosts wipe them out. Although they can take a few degrees.
I've got a seedling growing . I had Wildpretti due to flower this year after nursing them for a couple of years then the frost got them inside the greenhouse.
I had a beautiful one a couple of years ago but it was uprooted in a strong winter wind. These have appeared this year where it has self seeded and I have about four or five of them. They are much bigger than this now as the pic was taken some time ago. Hoping they will survive this winter and flower next year as the bees love them.
They grow like weeds here in South Devon. Quite odd to have flower stems which become logs for the woodburner!
My experience is that the roots are often a bit rubbish (something of a design flaw) so we usually stake them, and that the plants we covered on (mild) frosty nights did worse than the ones we left to get on with it.
They grow like weeds here in South Devon. Quite odd to have flower stems which become logs for the woodburner!
My experience is that the roots are often a bit rubbish (something of a design flaw) so we usually stake them, and that the plants we covered on (mild) frosty nights did worse than the ones we left to get on with it.
They're native to the Canary Islands, so I guess they're "designed" to grow on the stony mountainsides high up?
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They do self seed if you're lucky.
I had a beautiful one a couple of years ago but it was uprooted in a strong winter wind.
These have appeared this year where it has self seeded and I have about four or five of them. They are much bigger than this now as the pic was taken some time ago. Hoping they will survive this winter and flower next year as the bees love them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.