Thunbergia erecta: A winner in the garden

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Bearing heavenly flowers and handsome foliage year round, thunbergia erecta, a small tropical African shrub is an excellent choice for greenhouses and frost-free gardens.

Produced most heavily in late spring and summer, but sporadically at other seasons, the violet-blue, yellow-throated, tubular flowers attract hummingbirds and butterflies. There is also a white-flowering form, which seems to have smaller leaves which is ‘Alba’.

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Thunbergia erecta or Bush Clock Vine will be excellent as a backdrop for low-growing plants in a mixed border. It is an ideal shrub to add a splash of vibrant colour to your garden, can be grown in large pots or containers.

A beautiful ornamental shrub that will be great as a showy garden specimen or informal hedge and screen.

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Thunbergia erecta responds well to regular pruning and can be shaped into a very bushy shrub, though this inhibits blooming. It prefers full sun and well-drained soil but will bloom in partial shade.

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Water moderately and generously, especially during hot seasons. Moderately drought tolerant. Grow in moist, well-drained and humus-enriched soils. Adaptable to any garden soil as well.

Feed once fortnightly with a balanced organic fertiliser, one that provides healthy growth and flower production with nutrient content of phosphorous and potassium much higher than nitrogen.

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