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Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: johnstephen29 on March 08, 2015, 10:23:49 AM

Title: Clivia 2015
Post by: johnstephen29 on March 08, 2015, 10:23:49 AM

Here is my Clivia minarta in bloom, looking really good and more buds to come.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7593/16564241148_cfc0691b2e.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/reJ4NC)Clivia minarta (https://flic.kr/p/reJ4NC) by johnstephen29 (https://www.flickr.com/people/126223196@N05/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: Jupiter on March 08, 2015, 10:54:46 AM

Very healthy looking John, is Clivea a tender plant where you are? We grow ours out in the garden here and I never worry about them, tough as old boots!

I have three or four variations which I should photograph for the forum in the spring.

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: johnstephen29 on March 08, 2015, 03:40:20 PM

Hi Jamus it is a tender house plant here, do you get it to flower well? Here it is advised to keep them pot bound to get them to flower. I'm gonna have to repot it the year though, there's alot of roots coming through the drainage holes.

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: Hans J on March 08, 2015, 03:49:16 PM

Clivia minarta  ??? ???
Is this a new Clivia species  ::)

Hans 8)

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: johnralphcarpenter on March 08, 2015, 03:50:47 PM

No, it's a typographical error!

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: johnstephen29 on March 08, 2015, 03:57:35 PM

Hi Ralph have I spelt it wrong?
I've had a look on google and answered my own question, it's miniata. You have to watch it with these Apple gadgets.

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: johnralphcarpenter on March 08, 2015, 04:00:52 PM

It's Clivia miniata.

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: johnstephen29 on March 08, 2015, 04:01:58 PM

Cheers Ralph  :)

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: Matt T on March 08, 2015, 06:38:31 PM

You can see lovely plantings of Clivia miniata outside in Barcelona, outside the Sagrada Familia for example. I assume these are permanent plantings where proper cold weather is rare. Unfortunately I only have this close up, no wider context shot :(

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: johnstephen29 on March 08, 2015, 06:54:46 PM

Still great to see Matt

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: Jupiter on March 08, 2015, 07:31:08 PM

They flower very well here and seem to love our climate.

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3917/15214124617_a2951ecd02_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pbqncp)

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: brianw on March 08, 2015, 07:56:53 PM

They just need a frost free dormancy over winter. Mine flower fine with 6C min. If they are kept too warm over winter here, such as what is now normal indoor temps then they are reluctant to flower. Before UK central heating they were fine but things have changed. I kept mine outside all summer last year (when no frost was expected). A bit of sun scorch but no other problems. They were forest floor plants in South Africa the only time I saw them in the wild. I have seen them as balcony plants in Alicante where I guess they rarely go below 10C.
Several in bud at present.

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: Maggi Young on March 08, 2015, 08:23:11 PM

Lovely garden photo, Jamus

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: johnstephen29 on March 09, 2015, 08:18:11 PM

Great photo Jamus

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: Roma on March 09, 2015, 08:38:13 PM

I remember seeing it (a very long time ago) as ground cover under trees in the Botanic Garden in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife.

I spotted today a flower bud on my very neglected, hopefully yellow Clivia, sown in 2007 :-[ :)

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: Roma on April 12, 2015, 10:35:30 PM

Clivia miniata 'Citrina' 

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: johnstephen29 on November 15, 2015, 05:45:05 PM

Clivia miniata in flower for the second time this year.

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: Chris Johnson on November 16, 2015, 08:35:22 AM

Quote from: johnstephen29 on November 15, 2015, 05:45:05 PM

Clivia miniata in flower for the second time this year.

Very pleasing on a wintry November day ... also like the cushion  8)

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: johnstephen29 on November 16, 2015, 03:31:14 PM

Thanks Chris, glad you like the cushion, it came with the sofa, Andrea picked it so she'll be pleased when I tell her. :)

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: meanie on December 31, 2015, 07:16:42 AM

Here's mine................
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1569/23771498220_0b2b7a1003_z.jpg)

It has only been back in the house for a few weeks.

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: johnstephen29 on December 31, 2015, 04:03:50 PM

Great to see meanie

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: meanie on January 02, 2016, 09:42:18 AM

Quote from: johnstephen29 on December 31, 2015, 04:03:50 PM

Great to see meanie

I was hoping to show it with both stems (is that the correct phrase for Clivia?) in bloom but this first stem is just starting to go over.................

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: johnstephen29 on January 02, 2016, 10:29:06 AM

I always call them stems, how often does your plant flower? Mine flowers in the spring, spends the summer outside, then flowers in December.

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: meanie on January 02, 2016, 11:31:03 AM

Quote from: johnstephen29 on January 02, 2016, 10:29:06 AM

I always call them stems, how often does your plant flower? Mine flowers in the spring, spends the summer outside, then flowers in December.

Always in December and January but last year it flowered in the spring as well from a stem which was barely visible when it came indoors in the winter and seemed to stall.

Title: Re: Clivia 2015
Post by: Matt T on January 02, 2016, 11:38:41 AM

Quote from: meanie on January 02, 2016, 09:42:18 AM

I was hoping to show it with both stems (is that the correct phrase for Clivia?) .................

Scape?