Sissinghurst Castle - Part Seven : Re: Thanks for the on-going tour

» Kirk_Johnson - Re: Thanks for the on-going tour

In response to message posted by BettyPine:

In his book "Gardening at Sissinghurst", copyright 1995, Tony Lord said that those arches were originally planted with Rosa wichuraiana, but they produced few flowers and visitors would get hooked on the thorns, so they replaced them with Solanum jasminoides 'Album', but it was killed in hard winters. At the time that the book was written, clematis was being tried, but was not thriving. The metal arches get hot during the summer and cold during the winter; many plants dislike metal arches.

-- posted by Kirk_Johnson