Anyone recognise???

[Hilary B]

I saw this at the NGS garden we visited this weekend (when I forgot my camera Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr). The owner did tell me the latin name, but I can't remember it!
It comes from Chile
It climbs up things (other plants included)
The leaves are compound, rather similar in shape to a horse-chestnut leaf, but the biggest were only about 4 inches across.
Flowers are bright red, and a shape that I find impossible to describe.
Once in the garden, it gets EVERYWHERE!
Can anyone tell me what it is, because I WANT ONE!!

[Flummery]

Chilean Glory Vine (or Glory Flower - Ecremocarpus sommatorhother.

[ginger ninger]

Hi Hilary B,
Do the flowers look like the 'Foxglove' ???, could it be;-Eccremocarpus scaber 'Tresco Crimson' says in T&M catalogue "Clusters of tubular orange-crimson flowers grows around 6ft" this years cat num;-GAT2469..Good Luck

[vicky]

Google Image Result for http://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/tropaeolum_speciosum_4a6.jpg

I'm going for Tropaeolum speciosum a type of climbing nasturtium, very pretty and very vigourous (and I want some too!)

[Flummery]

That's not Chillean though. It grows brilliantly in Scotland. (Where it's a bit cooler!)

[Hilary B]

That's not Chillean though. It grows brilliantly in Scotland. (Where it's a bit cooler!)

Maybe I got a bit of 'crossed wires' and it was another of his plants that I admired which came from Chile, but that was the one I was after!

Thanks for all suggestions. It is great that I come in asking stupid questions, and there is ALWAYS someone who can work out what I'm talking about, however vague the description!