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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Hans J on July 16, 2012, 05:11:56 PM
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In this time I have a lot of flowers on my Thunbergia plants :D
Thunbergia natalensis
Thunbergia gregorii
Thunbergia gibsonii
Enjoy
Hans
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Lovely plants.
I wonder if in general anyone knows of a good source of thunbergia seed. I've been looking for t. grandiflora and t. mysorensis for a few years. Had various t. grandiflora seed which have failed to germinate.
Found somewhere selling plants this year - it had clearly been a good plant, but something horrible had happened on the way - when I opened it all the leaves were dropping off. Company said "transit shock, it will start to grow again" - taken all year to turn into compost.
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David ,
maybe look for seeds by Silverhill or African bulbs ...
I have bought my plants of T.gregorii + gibsonii from a special nursery ...
My T.natalensis I have received before some years from a friend as cuttings ...they need some weeks for rooting - after this no problem - it grows like a perennial
A other friend has promised me ( maybe ) a plant of T.battiscombei ;D
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Thanks for reminding me of silverhill. In the past when I looked at their site, the thunbergia where something like 'purple variety' a non-specific species description.
But better to have something unknown that grows than something exactly dead.
Time to place another order with silverhill...
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here is the new member of my Thunbergia's :
Thunbergia battiscombei
a really wonderful dark blue !
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These are all beautiful. I've seen the orange with the black throat around as a weed when visiting warmer areas than here, but have no idea whether it would grow here or not through winter? I did grow a pale apricot coloured one for 2 years, it surprised me by coming back the second season, but a wet winter last year knocked it off. They are a beautiful flower, but something I've definitely rarely ever seen around here. I just love that blue, Hans, and the gregorii (which I'm assuming is the one I've seen as a weed in warmer areas?). Thanks for showing us.
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Thank you Paul !
I grow T.natalensis since several years ( like a perennial ) - in winter I cut the stems and the pot is in our garage ( more or frostfree ) - same should work with T.battiscombei
What you have seen as weed should be T.alata - I have it not in my collection
..so far I know is T.alata and T.gregorii not the same plant.
My T.gregorii + T.gibsonii comes from a special nursery ...they grow it as anual plant
Hans
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Thanks for the info, Hans. I was surprised when the peachy coloured one I was given survived through one of our winters outside. I expected to treat them as an annual here. Unfortunately it never set seed. The dark coloured one does look like alata now that you've given me a name. Interestingly, the pics of gregorii on the Net do not have a dark throat, so yours may be unusual. The pics there show gibsonii and gregorii as superficially very similar.
I never realised until now that there were so many species of Thunbergii. Fascinating to learn new stuff. Thanks.