Tropaeolum Tuberosum

Does anyone know where this can be purchased? I have searched and I hav eonly come up with 2 place in the U.S. Neither have it.

Wow Marie - those are pretty...

Maybe post on the International Trading forum? Looks like even the seed sources are outside the US and out of stock as well. I bet someone international might have them though I'm not sure how long they would take to form tubers growing from seed.

Marie, this plant is also called Canary creeper. I found seeds for it at The Cooks Garden Their phone# is 1-800-457-9703 and cost about 2.50 or close to that.

Hi mekos. This is from the same family but a different one than what I am looking for. The one I want is a perennial and grown from a tuber.

Thanks for the idea Kelly I will post over there too.

This looks like ANOTHER vine I need - hope someone posts a source.

Me too Kay I have been searching the net for days now trying to find a source for it.

You got me searching too - lol...

well maybe with team work we can come up with a source!!

I think the former Heronswood Nursery (the one that was in the Northwest, not the imposter version in PA, though I see that they list it as unavailable, and at a ridiculous price) used to carry this. I ordered rhizomes some years ago and they did not do well in our summers, so I'm quite sure they would be toast in Arizona! Most tropaeolums do best in cool weather, some are winter growers only (like tricolor or azureum, both beautiful plants). T. tuberosum can be really vigorous where it is happy (northwest, parts of UK) but it would be a challenge where I am (near NYC), and downright impossible in the southwest or south. I think most cultivars of it also flower very late in the season, but there is at least one that will flower in summer if conditions are to its liking.

Nasturtiums grow as perennials here in NW Florida - perhaps this one would grow here, too.

No harm in trying, though I am shocked that regular nasturtiums can survive Florida summers. I've seen them growing as perennials in the SF area of California, they love their cool nights. Here nasturtiums do okay in summer, but sulk if it gets hot (90s), and they always look better a bit further north where summer night temps are slightly cooler. They are one of those things that perk up in fall but then the frost gets them soon afterwards.

I grow tropaeolums tricolor here . I have it in the ground and it is summer dormant but shows up as soon as it cools off. It will be blooming in another couple of months I also have t. brachyceras coming back for a second year and it is in a pot that get no water in the summer again going dormant so I do not think it will be that difficult to grow it is just matter of finding one. I saw the listing at Heronswood and that is way to expensive!!

I grew nasturtiums in Kern County Calif. Summer temp hit 100+ from July thru Sept.