Gardeners are great optimists

By John Warrington

Last week I mentioned the wisteria growing on the wall of my house in England.  On Mother’s Day I saw a friend who told me she had got a plant of wisteria growing here at home in Guyana. A long way from its native China and Japan. Growing, but not yet flowering. We gardeners are great optimists.
I suspect that she might have more success in the cooler highlands of Guyana like Region Eight, rather than on the coastal strip. This might also apply to my small holly tree which is growing very slowly and I think will never bear berries. A few weeks ago I started sowing seed of the Passion flower which is found growing all over Guyana.  It’s a fine plant for scrambling over a fence or trellis and produces edible fruit as well as the most delightful flowers with biblical connotations……