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  • #1

    Anyone recognise???

    I saw this at the NGS garden we visited this weekend (when I forgot my camera Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr). The owner did tell me the latin name, but I can't remember it!
    It comes from Chile
    It climbs up things (other plants included)
    The leaves are compound, rather similar in shape to a horse-chestnut leaf, but the biggest were only about 4 inches across.
    Flowers are bright red, and a shape that I find impossible to describe.
    Once in the garden, it gets EVERYWHERE!
    Can anyone tell me what it is, because I WANT ONE!!
    Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.
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    Chilean Glory Vine (or Glory Flower - Ecremocarpus sommatorhother.
    Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

    www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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    • #3
      Hi Hilary B,
      Do the flowers look like the 'Foxglove' ???, could it be;-Eccremocarpus scaber 'Tresco Crimson' says in T&M catalogue "Clusters of tubular orange-crimson flowers grows around 6ft" this years cat num;-GAT2469..Good Luck

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      • #4
        Google Image Result for http://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/tropaeolum_speciosum_4a6.jpg

        I'm going for Tropaeolum speciosum a type of climbing nasturtium, very pretty and very vigourous (and I want some too!)

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        • #5
          That's not Chillean though. It grows brilliantly in Scotland. (Where it's a bit cooler!)
          Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

          www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Flummery View Post
            That's not Chillean though. It grows brilliantly in Scotland. (Where it's a bit cooler!)

            Maybe I got a bit of 'crossed wires' and it was another of his plants that I admired which came from Chile, but that was the one I was after!

            Thanks for all suggestions. It is great that I come in asking stupid questions, and there is ALWAYS someone who can work out what I'm talking about, however vague the description!
            Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.

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