Chilean Potato Tree

Solanum crispum Glasnevin

• Position: full sun
• Soil: fertile, moist but well-drained soil
• Rate of growth: fast-growing
• Flowering period: June to September
• Flower colour: deep purple-blue
• Other features: tiny yellowish-white autumn berries (poisonous)
• Hardiness: frost hardy (needs winter protection)
  
  Fragrant, deep purple-blue flowers from summer to autumn, followed by yellowish-white fruits, and dark green leaves. This vigorous scented climber is perfect for covering a sunny, sheltered wall or fence. Lavenders and catmint are ideal companion plants, clothing the ground underneath the climber and helping to balance the design.
  
  
• Garden care: Tie in stems to horizontal wires or trellis. In early spring remove a third of the oldest stems to ground level.