Solanum jasminoides 'Album' 

The Potato Vine. One of several Solanum climbers - An evergreen.

A scrambling evergreen - not quite a climber - that can be trained up a fence, wall or over a pergola even. Very long flowering period - one flowering away now in December as I write this - and it started flowering in July! This Solanum flowers for a longer period than the more popular blue version - Solanum crispum Glasnevin. It will grow in virtually any soil, and is quite happy in shade - especially if it can clamber up to the sun.

You can propagate by semi-ripe cuttings fro late summer until autumn - with a little bottom heat.

Every spring - and I mean EVERY spring, prune back the side growths (those that grew and flowered the last year) to about 6in 150mm from the main stem. At this time, you can allow one or two of these growths to remain to train as a new structure/extension to the main framework.

Propagation of Potato Vine

Solanum jasminoides Album - together with other potato vines, can be rooted from semi-ripe cuttings during midsummer through to autumn.

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