Fewer than 100 of these magnificent trees survive in a secret location in New South Wales, Australia. A propagation programme ensures the survival of the species to decrees the threat to trees in the wild. Later this year Tendercare will have a number of Wollemi Pine for sale, as one of the rarest trees in the world this is not to be missed
Wollemi Pine have been noted as fossil and date back around 90 million years but was presumed extinct for around 2 million years. The discovery has been descried as finding a living dinosaur.
Passions for Flowers
...A very rare Passion Flower, which has just opened for the first time in the UK for nearly 100 years.
This is perhaps the first time P. antioquiensis has flowered in the UK in over 100 year. Martin Murray of Tendercare Nurseries, Denham & Dr Les King (Passiflora Cultivar Registrar) have been the only two growers in recent years to have successfully flowered this amazing, high altitude Passion Flower, due to expert knowledge and an abnormally warm late summers .
P. antioquiensis is native to Colombia, where it lives at around 2000m - 3200m and is grown in small numbers as a fruit plant to be sold at local farmers markets. It is also grown in the USA by Strybing Arboretum, California and some private collectors in the same area.
P. antioquiensis can be found "on sale" in the UK but is all too often mislabelled as P. x exoniensis which a beautiful free flowering hybrid of P. antioquiensis.
P. x exoniensis
Is a free flowering passion flower and makes a real show stopper to any garden it will tolerate -2oC. It helps if the plant is large and well rooted which is what you'll find with all our Passiflora in 10L - 35L pots. They are among the largest ready to plant passiflora in the UK!
New for 2006 P.CLEAR SKY
After many years of growing passion flowers, Tendercare is proud to exclusively offer this amazing climber. As you can see by this picture the difference in flower sizes between P. ’Clear Sky (left) and the common passion flower P. Caerulea. P.’Clear Sky’ is a real show stopper and will bring a hot tropical feel to any garden, quick to establish itself it will flower non-stop from May until October and is a welcomed food plant for all Butterfly's and Bees, happy in full sun / shady. It will tolerate -15oC
New for 2006
P.'Christine Murray'
Just one of our new fabulous hybrids, a bit more tender than most passiflora it makes a great patio or conservatory plant and fills the air with a sweet honey perfume. It will tolerate -1oC (short periods)
