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Re: What's blooming in your garden?
Lois,
Well, I think it has something to do with my cool house (1887 leaky
Victorian farmhouse that I keep around 60), the bay window with lace
curtain where the two prolific-blooming clivias spend the winter (the
two that were by a north-facing window are later to bloom and I
suspect the lower light has something to do with it). Then they all
go outside in full shade for the summer and they seem very happy
there. They've gotten severe sunburn when they had even a little full
sun. Then there's the thing about being pot-bound and letting them go
dry for the winter (very, very hard for me to learn) and then
starting to water in February. Soon after, I start seeing little bud
clusters emerging. Probably the water (or lack thereof) is a key
variable).
The Timber Press book on clivias has an interesting anecdote about a
clivia that was left on a front porch during the Boer War when its
owner was imprisoned. When the owner returned, there was the clivia,
still on the porch, doing just fine. Think it might even have been
blooming. Obviously nobody had cared for it for a very long time, so
there's a lesson in there somewhere.
Carolyn
On Mar 14, 2008, at 10:51 PM, loisdan@juno.com wrote:
> Hi Carolyn,
>
> Please tell me what to do to get so many flowers on the clivia. I'm
> just
> starting with my first (very expensive) golden dragon.
>
> Regards,
> Lois
> Visit http://loisdevries.blogspot.com
>
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:02:48 +0200 Carolyn Ulrich
> <cultivated@sbcglobal.net> writes:
>> In Chicago, the snow melted a week ago and now the snowdrops are up
>>
>> and showing white buds. Things happen fast when they decide to get
>>
>> going.
>>
>> In the house one of my clivias has 8 blooming stalks, and another
>> has
>> 7. One little mystery is the potted convolvulus with half-inch pale
>>
>> blue flowers that I couldn't resist last summer. I was told not to
>>
>> expect it to live through the winter. However, it has not only lived
>>
>> but bloomed all winter long.
>> Carolyn Ulrilch
>> On Mar 14, 2008, at 9:42 PM, Doreen Howard wrote:
>>
>>> Doug Green's snow fleas showed up here, too, amongst the ice
>> flows.
>>> Indoors, though, I have an amorphophallus bulb that has grown a
>> 50-
>>> inch
>>> stalk and spathe. The spathe is now turning a vivid purple and
>> should
>>> unfurl in a few days. Looking forward to the stinking bloom!
>>> Doreen Howard
>>>
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