Gardening and Flowers Review

Many names for this plant, among others, “Cathedral bells,” “Monastery bells.” If you see from this side of the plant, the form of a bell-like flowers with about 5 cm long.

There appears to be unsolvable brain gardeners for many of us who want to color vertical and in the summer without having to wait a year or two for the annual shrubs or climbers to develop enough interest to both.

The simple answer is to plant seeds of annual climbers, who have the ability to grow, grow stupendously, generously flower and set seed in a few short months. So impressive that they can often change the look a garden – all the little wonder.

Annual climbers are, in fact, that is too often perennials frost tender to survive the winter. Lablab purpureus is one, another Eccremocarpus scaber, Maurandya barclayana third, but my favorite is the beautiful and fast developing Cobaea scandens.

Create this impressive woody climber, evergreen perennial native of Mexico. Here it grows 10ft or so more heat, and from August (provide seeds have been sown early enough) until the first frosts, produce very large and distinctive flowers that start white but greenish to turn inky purple with age.

The bell-shaped flowers are up to 2in in diameter and have a ruff of bracts – and with the common name, cup and saucer plant or cathedral bells.

Interest is in the longish stalks that hold them in front of the leaf. There is also a form of white (actually a very soft-light green) called ‘Alba’, the more difficult to find and not quite so showy. Flowers, after they have developed, give off a very pleasant scent (they are pollinated by bats in Mexico). Leaves a 4in long, consisting of four and leaflet tendril with a little more on the hook, used to ride; Charles Darwin he was very impressed to learn cobaea book The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1875).

Cobaea scandens will appeal to anyone who longs for something with panache and visual impact. This will also solve the problem, at least temporarily, of what must be done by opening the wall of the room if something unexpected death.

Growing tips

Cobaea scandens must be sown in late winter or very early spring, individuals in a small Pot seed compost, each seed is set at the end of the thin and covered with more compost or perlite. Pot cover with clingfilm to retain moisture and put in the windowsill propagator. Germination takes three months to one month. Once germinated the seedlings should be moved to a larger (5in) Pot connected with the stock so that young have something come around the twine. They grow in a cool temperature. Does not harden them carefully and put the young plants in the garden when danger of frost is past, against a strong trellis or near the south-facing wall or fence or wire netting that was installed. Cobaea best in moist but not well drained soil, so water regularly in dry spells.

Cobaea scandens can grow in a large pot (at least in diameter) in large glass greenhouse or cold, during the match to the cable provided to cling to. Each pot of water over-cobaea needs and protection of glasshouse red spider mite. They will be given the cold temperatures at night does not dip below 5C.

Good companions

Cobaea scandens have the capacity to climbers swamp more subtle, such as Clematis viticella cultivars or Rhodochiton volubile, that may be suitable as companions. However, if grown on a wall or trellis will make a good backcloth to summer perennials growing in front of the border. Frikartii Aster ‘Monch’, echinops bannaticus’ Taplow Blue ‘, Strobilanthes atropurpurea and Echinacea purpurea will associate with all good, as do annuals such as the green-flowered Nicotiana langsdorfii and N.’ Lime Green ‘, and pink Cosmos bipinnatus. But it is a plant that can stand on its own.