Re: Sprekelia formosissima

Thanks so much, Dave and Moira, for the detailed info.  I'm hopeful now
about seeing these beautiful flowers next year!  (So far, I've only seen
them in pictures...)  

Moira, what do you think is the reason your plants in containers didn't
bloom, though?  In open ground in my garden, the slugs eat them
instantaneously.  You can almost hear the munching noises.

Susannah

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Moira wrote:
>susannah@gladstone.uoregon.edu wrote:
>>   ...  Does it need more sun, or a dry winter?
>
>... I tried it as you have in pots and also in the  open garden, but as you
have also found the contained ones did not flower and the open ground
>ones just disappeared. I finally came to the conclusion that my open
>garden was just slightly too frosty (sometimes down to -3C) and probably
>too winter wet for survival and put the next purchase of bulbs in a bed
>on a west-facing wall under the house eaves. This gets almost no natural
>rain in winter...virtually no frost at all. Result a lovely flower from
each bulb each year.



Dave Poole wrote:
>...bright light at all times, heavy
>feeding during the growing season followed by a protracted rest in
>cool, dry conditions.  They can be flowered without the rest, but seem
>to perform better if they get a long dry period.  Full sun, especially
>from the middle of summer onwards is the trigger they need to initiate
>flower bud production and most people growing them in pots, tend to
>put them outside to ripen fully.  The fertiliser BTW should be a high
>potash type - tomato fertiliser is fine.
>
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