Tropaeolum

[Paul T]

I love both of them.  Interesting colours, that is for sure.

[Jean-Patrick AGIER]

We are now waiting for some interesting pics promised by Steven Mc Farlane. I also have some but some species seem to be reluctant in germinating. Last year some Tr Fintelmannii ssp Olmosense waited till October to appear, produced some seeds ( hand pollinated ) and died early 2009. I don't have any green house so that's why the story ended like that...I'm still waiting for these beauties to decide to germinate. One pic taken Autumn 2007 ( from a young seedling given by a BG.
Other less showy plants from early spring.
I currently have one Tr Huigrense seedling which I strongly hope to put to flower ( end of summer ? ) if I'm lucky enough...

[Steven McFarlane]

Hi

My various tender species are doing well. T. peregrinum and T. smithii (Cally) are in flower.  T. moritzianum is in bud and the other two are growing rapidly.  I will post pictures as soon as I can. 
On another tack I was wondering if all of you have seen the pictures of the white azureum at http://www.chileflora.com/Florachilena/FloraEnglish/HighResPages/EH0553A.htm
It certainly made my mouth water. 
Another set of wonderful images,this time of T. hybrids, can be found at
http://homepage2.nifty.com/nyandora/
Look at the first couple of links under NEW!! This will lead you to many, many images.  There are however some beautiful flowers and you cannot but wonder at the effort put in by the person who runs the website.
 

[Mike Ireland]

My pot grown plants of Tropaeolum tricolorum have completely finished flowering and have died right back but a plant in my raised bed in the alpine house is again giving some shade on the south side.  This works very well as natural shading.

[Lesley Cox]

The white T. azureum is a beauty all right, but are we not perverse to want a white form of such a beautiful blue flower, especially when red, oranges and yellows are the "norm" for the genus?

[Maggi Young]

Mike, what a super Trop. tricolorum, showing just how floriferous it can be.... very classy natural shading, eh? !!

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi

My various tender species are doing well. T. peregrinum and T. smithii (Cally) are in flower.  T. moritzianum is in bud and the other two are growing rapidly.  I will post pictures as soon as I can. 
On another tack I was wondering if all of you have seen the pictures of the white azureum at http://www.chileflora.com/Florachilena/FloraEnglish/HighResPages/EH0553A.htm
It certainly made my mouth water. 
Another set of wonderful images,this time of T. hybrids, can be found at
http://homepage2.nifty.com/nyandora/
Look at the first couple of links under NEW!! This will lead you to many, many images.  There are however some beautiful flowers and you cannot but wonder at the effort put in by the person who runs the website.
 

Steven,
I was stunned by the pics on the first link but was absolutely gob-smacked by the second link!  Can you get it translated or do you who runs the site?

Lesley,
think "white tecophilea"
 
cheers
fermi

[Luc Gilgemyn]

My pot grown plants of Tropaeolum tricolorum have completely finished flowering and have died right back but a plant in my raised bed in the alpine house is again giving some shade on the south side.  This works very well as natural shading.

Gloriuos Mike !!! Just glorious !! 

Beats any shade netting... 

[Lesley Cox]

The second link is a frustration for me as most of the text is in some odd code of letters, numbers, symbols. Is this HTML? Every time I click on a link it goes right back to the home page so I can get no further and don't know what it all means anyway. Lower text is just little square boxes

[Maggi Young]

Lesley, the same for me.... I think it is a Japanese site and our pcs don't "read" the characters. 

[Rodger Whitlock]

Lesley, the same for me.... I think it is a Japanese site and our pcs don't "read" the characters. 

The problem may be as simple as not having Japanese fonts on your system, but under Windows you must also enable "complex script rendering" to see Chinese,  Japanese, and many other scripts properly rendered.

I started making the switch to Ubuntu Linux two years ago and find its easy handling of unusual writing systems a real treat, as well as the wide range of scripts supported by standard installed fonts. I can't read Georgian or Japanese or Hindi, but at least the characters are properly displayed with no fuss.

[fermi de Sousa]

The second link is a frustration for me as most of the text is in some odd code of letters, numbers, symbols. Is this HTML? Every time I click on a link it goes right back to the home page so I can get no further and don't know what it all means anyway. Lower text is just little square boxes

Hi Lesley,
what I did was open the page and in the side bar on the left there is the latin name "Tropaeoleum" directly under that is a box with some Japanese/Chinese/Korean(?) script "年度栽培" following the number "2008" - this is the link to hit. It opens to a table with different headings of Trop species and hybrids. Hit on one of the names and this opens a page showing the story of that plant/s from seed to flower to seed again! It's amazing and a sign of real devotion/fanaticism!
good luck!
cheers
fermi

[Brian Ellis]

2008年度栽培

Means Year of Culivation in the Simplified Chinese Han script (courtesy of translator widget on Mac).  What a site!!

[Maggi Young]

For anyone who misses our references, we are talking about this website:
http://homepage2.nifty.com/nyandora/
This is an extraordinary site with valuable photographic records of seed type,  germination habit etc etc etc......
Do we know whether this is the work of one person or a group of enthusiasts? A labour of love.... made with condierable thoroughness.  

[Steven McFarlane]

Hi

To the best of my knowledge the site is run by Emiko Tsujii but sadly I don't have any further information.

Steven