Name This Plant?

[Monika]

Every year when I send for seed, I order some packets called 'lottery mixed' which will only tell you that they are perennials, trees & shrubs, alpines etc.

Generally, I will recognise what pops up but this 'garden perennial' has got me flummoxed.

Does anyone know what this is, please? I set it last September.

[DaisyB]

Can you take a close up of it Monika, it's not so easy to tell from this pck. Or can you make this pic bigger?

[Monika]

Is this any better, DaisyB?

[widget]

Strange Monika, it looks like it has tendrils, like a sweet pea, do you know if it flowers, are you keeping it in the greenhouse,

[Monika]

Hi Widget ... the only thing I know is that it is a garden perennial which I set from seed last September and when the weather warms up a bit (brrr today!) I'll put it in the garden.

About it flowering ... I don't know yet but I presume it must because it has seeds, but I can't imagine that the flowers would be very big somehow.

[Monika]

The radio gardeners have been on Radio Nottingham this morning, so I sent them a picture of the plant and they say that it is a 'Chilean Glory Vine' and looks good growing through a Yew.

So, as we have several Yew trees, I shall plant this at the base of one of them and hope for a good show.

[widget]

http://www.fothergills.co.uk/en/eccremo ... -1260.aspx

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/p ... /279.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/gqt/fsheets ... tsq6.shtml

All you might want to know

[Monika]

Many thanks, Ann

[DaisyB]

I'd never have got that one, it's new to me.

[Emm]

I bet it will look nice intertwined with another climber, too.