Re: What's blooming in your garden?

**"* C* <d*@chilitech.net>**

You've obviously got it right, Lois -- cool and dry. I just counted, and I 
have nine blossoms in three pots. I do things pretty much as you do --  
outside in summer with ZERO sun -- except that I don't give any water until 
the blossoms are opening. I get a bloom from each fan, sometimes two.

I don't have the newer, expensive yellow form. I wonder, since yellow forms 
of plants are sometimes more difficult, whether the yellow clivias are 
perhaps more finicky. Any experience with this?

D

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carolyn Ulrich" <cultivated@sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: [GWL] 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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