If you live in an area with a mild climate, you will undoubtedly like to have a climbing plant that is very easy to grow and that also produces very beautiful flowers, right? If so, I will recommend the trya fast growing plant that will be able to cover those walls or walls that you don’t like so little.
Do you want to know its characteristics and care? Well there it goes .
What is the cobea like?
Our protagonist is a herbaceous climbing plant native to Mexico whose scientific name is Guinea pig climbing. Their common names are: cobea, cobo, funeral home, purple ivy and bishop’s shoe. It is characterized by having evergreen leaves, formed by 4-6 oval leaflets that end in a branched tendril. Its beautiful flowers have a striated calyx, with a violet or whitish bell-shaped corolla (the ‘Alba’ variety).
It has a very fast growthbut it is very easy to control it by pruning carried out throughout the year. But let’s see it in more detail.
What are their cares?
If you dare to get a copy, we recommend taking care of it in the following way:
- Location: outside, in semi-shade. In frosty climates it can be kept indoors in a very bright room, protected from drafts.
- Soil or substrate: it is not demanding, but it must have good sewer system.
- Irrigation: during the summer it is advisable to water on alternate days, the rest of the year two weekly waterings will be enough.
- Subscriber: from the beginning of spring to the end of summer, it must be paid, for example with guano or worm castings.
- Planting or transplanting time: in spring. In the case of having it in a pot, it should be transferred to a larger one every two years. We have to provide him with a support that he can climb on.
- Pruning: To control its growth and development, those stems that have grown excessively should be trimmed, as well as those that look dry, sick or weak.
- Multiplication: by seeds in spring, and by cuttings in water during the summer.
- Rusticity: does not support frost.
