Petrea volubilis

This is a plant I have never seen before. It is planted against the wall of a building in Sollèr Botanical Garden. From a distance it seems to have long rcemes of flowers like a Wisteria but on closer inspection you can see that each flower is very small and is surrounded by bracts of the same colour. The flower buds are tight and open up to look like this. It is absolutely stunning. I hope to be planting it in many gardens on the island as I think it is worthy of wider propogation. For any botanists it is labelled as being of the family Verbenaceae and comes from Central America.

Lovely!