Tropaeolum, was BX donation Information
Jane McGary (Mon, 04 Nov 2019 08:34:57 PST)

Re Tropaeolum hookerianum, it grows in areas that experience slight
frost. I consider the native climate much like that of the middle
foothills of the Sierra Nevada (California) east of say Fresno. One
piece of advice: if you give it something to climb on, use a twiggy
branch, not metal. I had some tropaeolums die after being frozen on
metal supports.

I saw a photo of T. brachyceras flowering as a pretty dome and wrote to
the grower in England to find out how she did it. She told me she had
made a dome of chicken wire over the top of the pot and trained the
stems round and round on it. This yellow species can become very large
with time here.

Jane McGary

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