Polygala myrtifolia

 Anyone growing it or any of it's varieties successfully in the UK? Where
about in the UK are you? Does it take frost? Does it flower well and when?

-- Regards
Bob Hobden
Posting to this Newsgroup
from the W.of London. UK

 

It was killed off here in the garden about 3 years ago.  I lost it in a
Jersey garden, too, during an unusually severe winter for Jersey.  They
do fine in the greenhouses.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

 "Sacha"  wrote

I'll scrub it off my list then.
--
Regards  Bob Hobden
Posting to this Newsgroup from the W. of London UK

 

I can nearly get it through the winter outside here, I suspect if you were
very coastal or inner city it may be doable, here it grows in an unheated
greenhouse and flowers 365 days a year and remains evergreen.


--
Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall
Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella
and Lapageria rosea cvs
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk  

 I had the hybrid P. x dalmaisiana growing here for several years.  So
well in fact that I had to shift it, which proved to be a fatal move.
They don't like being disturbed once established.  After a couple of
years settling in, it was almost constantly in flower and the bright
magenta against the blue-green leaves was a very telling combination.
The green leaved myrtifolia is widely used for low hedging in Cyprus
where it seems to withstand  inordinate butchery and yet continues to
flower freely.