Re:My clivia plant in flower - 2007/12/16 20:17That's a real beauty, Tweets! And I love the close-up photo.
I have one that I was hoping would turn out to be the much-sought-after yellow, instead, it is a soft peach-y shade . . . still quite pretty, even if not quite what I expected.
It seems that you and I share similar taste in plants, I'd probably be very happy living in your part of the world, where the tropical and sub-tropical plants that I love could live outdoors, year 'round.
Re:My clivia plant in flower - 2007/12/16 20:22Oh yeah I never have to move my plants, just have to watch the hot sun..
Thats why I need to put shade clothe up the side of the house ..
I am in Perth, Western Australia. The other side from Sydney (lol most people only know Sydney) We have a very dry climate this side, Syndey and Melbourne get much more wet weather. We have water restrictions thus the reasons I use pots for most of my plants ( That and I am a control freak)
I really love that colour, I really want to get a few more to add some more colour to my little land of pot plants
Re:My clivia plant in flower - 2007/12/16 20:25zuzu while I have you here .. When the clivia stops flowering do you cut back the stalks? This was a gift given to me and I am not sure how to look after it. It has flowered several times but one stalk looks like it is about to get more flowers.
See I tell you I am hopeless at plants but they seem to survive for me even if I have no idea
Re:My clivia plant in flower - 2007/12/16 20:47I wait until the stalks begin to wither before I cut them back.
There is always the chance that you might have a pod of seeds develop. I was so thrilled this summer to have a seed pod appear, but in the end, it dropped off and the stalk turned yellow.
Re:My clivia plant in flower - 2007/12/16 20:57Oooo! that is exciting, maybe you'll have better fortune than I did.
The pod does look like a swelling where a flower once was, they are green to begin, and if all goes well, they will ripen to either yellow or a red color. They can take as long as 9-10 months to mature, I've read.
Re:My clivia plant in flower - 2007/12/16 21:28Oh yes! That is just what mine looked like, at first.
You can probably just continue to treat the plant as you have done so far, and wait for them to ripen.
Likely it was the climate here that was my undoing, summertime was fine, but when evening temperatures began to fall, the plant continued to do quite well, but I suppose that mother nature said "well, if the weather won't stay warm enough to bring the pod to ripeness, just as well quit wasting energy and drop it altogether."
I imagine you will recognize the ripened state, color change, for one thing.
Re:My clivia plant in flower - 2007/12/16 21:31ah so its all good because I am in summer here so i could end up with some lovely red seed pods ..
That is great,, Thank you so much because I would have cut them off, but I dont mind a few more clivia even if they are the same colour I have a few sides to my house rofl
Re:My clivia plant in flower - 2007/12/16 21:36Keep your fingers crossed - you never know what may come of a seedling, Likely to be like the parent, with a self-pollination, but still a chance for recessive genes to make an appearance.
Re:My clivia plant in flower - 2007/12/17 11:51Ladies, would you mind very much if I move this thread to the 'tropical flowers' section of this forum (hereabove), because this is actually meant for flower art (you know: paintings, statues, embroidery etc. of flowers)
Re:My clivia plant in flower - 2009/08/31 12:29HotTweetypie wrote: I have a close up of the flowers also Wow, your ideas is so interesting and meaningful.We like it very much .Thanks a lot for sharing !
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