Lapageria rosea 'Nash Court'

Like all the Lapageria, Lapageria 'Nash Court' is exacting in its requirements, needs cool moist acid soil in shade, absolutely hates direct sun for any length of time. The flowers are a beautiful shade of cherry red and show up well against the dark leathery evergreen leaves, they are large and waxy. In flower from July through to March. Due to its flowering period and the fact that new growth can be frost damaged it needs a sheltered place, or grow it down the shady end of the conservatory.
The species comes from Chile where its both endangered and the national flower. Introduced to the UK around 1847

The cultivar 'Nash Court' is one of the oldest and dates back to the 1880's it was originally raised by a Mr George Humphries the gardener at Nash Court, Faversham in Kent. It was exhibited at an RHS show in 1884 where it received a First Class certificate, the flowers being longer and less flared than the type. However since then confusion with the name has arisen and there are plants called both 'Nash Court pink' and Nash Court red' I am interested to hear from anyone who thinks that their plant is Nash Court as I believe many of the plants will prove to be seedlings of it.

Our original comes from a plant growing at the "Garden House" in the porch which dates back to the 1950's

In 2019 I brought back a copy of this from California, it appears to be identicle to the garden house plant