This week on The Horti-Cuilturalists we’ve spent the last six months shooting eight different spectacular Chilean plants as they were in bloom, from bulbs to trees, to give you a TINY taste of the diverse flora of this botanically amazing country. Stephen grows a lot of Chilean plants so this may well be the first of many Andean epics…but lets start with these eight…and there may be the odd honourable mention of a couple more! These are the plants we cover:
Tropaeolum tricolor or Chilean nasturtium
Tecophilaea cyanocrocus or the Chilean blue crocus
Crinodendron patagua or lily of the valley tree
Drimys winteri or winter’s bark
Conanthera trimaculata
Berberidopsis corallina
Lapageria rosea or Chilean bellflower
Fascicularia bicolor subsp. bicolor
And special non-Chilean guest star Berberidopsis beckleri
We have made a video about Fascicularia bicolorsubsp. bicolor which you can see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykd7d-3067E
We have made a video about Tropaeolum tricolor which you can see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1ZfElI5hHg&t=78s
We’ve made a video that includes care information for Lapageria rosea which you can see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeDOhrrTOcI&t=342s
0:00 introduction to Chilean plants
0:56 Tropaeolum tricolor
3:24 how to grow Tecophilaea cyanocrocus
9:05 how to grow Crinodendron patagua
12:04 how to grow Drimys winteri
15:07 how to grow Conanthera trimaculata
17:35 how to grow Berberidopsis corallina
19:59 how to grow Berberidopsis beckleri
21:58 Lapageria rosea
24:15 Fascicularia bicolor subsp. bicolor
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7 Comments
Very interesting. You both are always very informative.
Fabulous! Love you guys. I’m in wonder about the woman’s name Tecophila. Searching for the origin and meaning. I don’t suppose it’s in use anymore.
Wonderful plant list in the description. Thanks
Very interesting! The blue on those flowers is impressive! I’d love to see a video on rare North American plants too.
Another wonderful episode. Thank you.
💞✨Thank you. This was a lovely tour of some of the Chilean showstoppers, absolutely absorbing. 👏💗
I am getting new ideas for blue, yeah!!!!! As we in the US are going into our winter and thinking about ordering roses. You are going into summer and I have not seen any roses in your gardens, do you have any? Does anyone around you grow the "old garden roses" from europe and asia? Have you heard of the myth that English Shrub roses can NOT be grown on own roots (as in they won't grow roots with any propagation technique.)? Please show us roses , if you have any.