Re: clivia

**K* M* <k*@iol.ie>**

One advantage of living in a cool climate is that one can often  
persuade South African natives to flower twice (or more) in the year.  
Most of  the year my clivias live in the shade of the low walls of my  
unheated south facing conservatory and are ignored. Every so often I  
bring one into the warmth of the living room and feed and water it.  
It promptly flowers. After flowering it goes back into the cool and  
dry. Later in the year when the conservatory has got too warm the  
north facing glazed back porch gets substituted as a permanent home.  
At the moment there are two which flowered before Christmas still in  
the living room because the foliage looks so good and two more just  
brought into the warmth at Christmas which are already showing the  
first signs of budding up. A most generous plant.

Kathryn 
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