Bush Lily
Clivia miniata
(KLY-vee-uh)
Clivia cultivation is easy but I must admit the time from
when they go into the greenhouse in the fall until they bloom in the spring can
be a little agonizing. Like most years I didn’t water these plants at all. As a
gardener I find it hard to withhold water from any plant for that long. It just
doesn’t seem prudent. This plant may have received a tiny bit of overspray from
the watering of other plants around it but it hardly amounted to anything over
the period of the months. The way I get through doing a gardening task like
this is to say to myself that I am trying to recreate the conditions the plant
sees in nature and we all know nature can be weird!
After we started to water them again we were soon rewarded
with the brilliant orange unbels of orange flowers. It is quite a striking
color and very showy. There are also yellow and primrose types available but
they can be harder to find.
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