{"product_id":"bishy-barnabees-cottage-garden-cobaea-scandens-purple","title":"Cobaea scandens Purple","description":"\u003cp\u003eA climbing annual that will put on four to six metres in a single season and cover a wall or a pergola from one packet. The flowers are big bells framed by a green leafy calyx, which is the saucer the common name refers to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe colour show is what makes it. A bud opens papery lime-green, develops violet stripes over a day or two as the pigment comes through, then deepens to a rich varnished purple, and because the plant carries flowers at every stage at once you get green, striped and purple bells on the same vine. There is a sweet musky scent in the evening, a hangover from being bat- and moth-pollinated in its native Mexican mountain forest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo things will lose you the display. It must be sown in January or early February to have time, and it needs real warmth to germinate.\u003c\/strong\u003e Flowering does not start until August and runs to November, so a plant started late gives you a great deal of vine and almost no flower before the frost takes it. It is also no use cut; the bells collapse in a vase within a day. Enjoy it where it grows.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53524448543053,"sku":"COB-PUR","price":2.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/6961\/6973\/files\/20488000c559d1300111d76_upscale.jpg?v=1773311131","url":"https:\/\/thefoalyard.co.uk\/products\/bishy-barnabees-cottage-garden-cobaea-scandens-purple","provider":"The Foalyard","version":"1.0","type":"link"}