[gardeners] Clerodendron & cucumbers
asidv@fbg.net (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sun, 26 Jul 1998 14:14:34 +0000
Penny wrote
>I don't know which clerodendron I grow . . .they grow right up the
>macrame hangers . . . white flower with red stamens.
Apparently a viner, only white ones I know are c Thomsoniae
(tropical Africa) blooms summer and autumn. Height 10-15 feet.
OR c umbellatan (South Africa), blooms July and August.
There are two shrubby clerodendron. c fragrans (Far east), has
terminal white flowers, 2-6 feet high, blooms late summer and autumn
OR c infortunatum, a native of India and Ceylon, usually 5-6 feet
high.
Of course, I am no expert on clerodendron; there are probably others
with white flowers.
Penny also wrote
>cucumbers . . . look like crook-necked green squash!
I asked a local grower about your cucumbers. He said cucumbers that
do not grow in straight cylindrical shape have been - at one time or
another - unevenly watered. So far as he knows, only water stressed
cucumbers develop a "hook" -- Actually he said, "Uneven water and
they're goners for the market, by hook or by crook." Loves to pun,
that man.
Pat