Re: clivia

**j* e* m* s* <h*@sbcglobal.net>**

I don't move my clivia outdoors in summer like I do the rest of my 
tropical/houseplants. I, too, have the orange clivia and it blooms 
usually in March. I don't really do anything for this plant. It seems 
to do well with benign neglect, from watering to fertilizer. I do 
keep it in a south-facing window year 'round. It seems to prefer 
being a bit pot bound because the year I divided the clivia, it 
didn't bloom.

To really brag, though, I picked a Meyeri lemon from my plant to use 
at my New Year's Eve dinner party. Another tough specimen whose 
fragrance lured $14 from my wallet while walking through Lowe's 
indoor plant section about four years ago in March.

This plant also seems to do well with benign neglect. I move it 
outside in full sun in summer. Even though it's an evergreen in 
warmer climes, it drops most of its leaves here in winter. This year 
was the first time I actually got a full-size fruit that turned 
yellow (photo available upon request). It blooms two or three times a 
year, even indoors and the fragrance is well worth it, dropping 
leaves and all, even if it never bore fruit.

jems

>Here in Virginia I've had an orange clivia for several years.  I keep it
>outdoors in the warm months, and bring it inside during the winter. 
>Alas, it hasn't ever flowered, so I'm thinking of giving up.  Any
>suggestions?  The friend who gave it to me gets flowers, but she has a
>sun room where her tender plants live in the winter.   I don't have
>that.  Maybe mine isn't getting enough light?...
>     Catriona
>
>Kathryn Marsh wrote:
>
>>Mine sits next to the orange one and behaves exactly like it. Its 
>>strictly an indoor plant here in Ireland - can just about survive the 
>>winter outside but won't flower if you leave it out so it lives and 
>>thrives in an unheated conservatory.
>>
>>Kathryn
>>
>>
>>On 2 Jan 2008, at 14:54, loisdan@juno.com wrote:
>>
>> 
>>
>>>Grandma's clivia made such an impression on me in the 1950s that, 
>>>decades
>>>later, I instantly recognized it in a plant catalog. Alas, I don't 
>>>much
>>>care for orange flowers. Now that the price of the yellow clivia has
>>>finally come down some, I'm ready to make my move. Does anyone have
>>>experience with the yellow clivia? Is it as easy, easier than, or more
>>>difficult than the orange?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Lois J. de Vries
>>>Visit http://loisdevries.blogspot.com
>>>
>>>   
>>>
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