Name of these rich pink flowers?

gaiscioch

Hi.

Does anybody know the name of these deep pink flowers? I saw them in Malta in July, so my second question is: would they flower like this in Ireland?

We are looking for a colourful wallflower to grow into the trellis on the large white wall in the back garden.

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Thanks.

lottpaul

They look like Bougainvillea which is very frost sensitive. I doubt if they could surive even the mildest of Irish winters if grown outside. You could grow them in a large container, keep it in a glasshouse/conservatory over winter and move it outside for the summer.

looksee

Agreed, lottpaul is right about bougainvillea and about it being a tender plant.

There are some climbers that would produce a pink flower, but nothing that would produce that profusion in Ireland. Probably a rose would be your best bet, but they don't tend to have a long flowering period. Combine a carefully chosen clematis with the rose and that would prolong the flowering period.

You could get pink from a perennial sweet pea (or indeed an annual sweetpea if you were willing to re-grow them each year). There is a blue solanum which flowers well. Honeysuckle is another possibility.

Which way does the wall face, is there a good space of open earth at the foot of it to plant things in?