Solanum jasminoides (common names: Potato Vine)
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Solanum jasminoides (aka Potato Vine)
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It doesn't look like my climber is going to grow this year, it is not showing little buds of growth is this normal. I have had the plant 2 years now.
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This is a semi-evergreen or evergreen climber, to 20 feet tall. Leaves are slender, ovate to lancolate, shiny, deep green, to 2 inches long. Flowers are fragrant, pure white with yellow anthers, to 1 inch wide, held in axillary and terminal corymbs to 3 inches across, and borne in summer and fall. Fruit is black and ovoid. Native to Brazil. Protect from frost.
IMPORTANT INFO : Fruit may cause severe stomach upset if eaten.
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Grows for me even on clay (except for one very wet winter when it perished)
Purchased from - Morrisons 2008
Purchase cost - £1.99
Current height 2008 - 20 inches
Expected height - 12ft
Habit - Semi-evergreen climber. White flowers from July to October. Foliage is green with yellow variegation on edges.
Garden placement - along back garden fencing between lilac variety and ceanothus hedging.
Personal notes - take cuttings in summer to autumn.
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Spritzhenry
23 Sep, 2007
THAT is what I plan for the central climber in my new border. Please give me some hints on growing it, Andrew!
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