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.

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?

Is this any better, DaisyB?

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,

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.

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.

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

Many thanks, Ann

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

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