Sorry this plant is not available at the moment. Please try again later or select an alternative plant. Description: Discovered prior to 1939 and named for its grower at RHS Wisley Gardens. Valued for its flowers with orange-red exteriors and yellow interiors, from earlier than the normal form of this tuber-forming species of a nasturtium relative, which bears similar grey-green lobed foliage. Flowering from July until frost, for us when we used to grow this in the early 90’s in an open field, in a similar manner to potatoes. Best to bury the tubers to keep them from freezing and stored in a similar manner to potatoes over the winter. Forming a climbing plant, normally to about 3m tall, but much larger in a good fertile moisture retaining soil, preferably without too high a lime content or sited in too hot a site. Tubers form in the cool shorter days of the autumn.
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