I have been trying to grow Scaevola which is an Australian plant for a few years and it always browns up at the base or just pines away early in the summer....
Hi All Our new clivia complex started construction this week after many weeks back and forth to the engineers and then local council for approval. Attached are...
Someone recently asked if I could recommend interesting sites in the Canary Islands which I had mentioned. I apologise as I appear to have lost their email...
Hi Claire It isn't that soils of the Southern Hemisphere are low in phosphorus. I think it's more the case that many of the soils in Australia (and SA) are...
Erika...Hi I am not expert ..just lover of Clivias..I have had them 30 years..original one given me from elderly client as going away gift when I left job from...
The Protea family are from the "fynbos" group of plants. These are found in a totally different soil to clivia. Geographically they are from different regions...
Hello all, I have added some very rare plants to my web site at URL = http://www.shieldsgardens.com/Bulbs/SpringFall2003.html#Hymenocallis Contact me privately...
Hello, Wow!!! I'd sure like to have your greenhouse in my backyard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't envy you having to move those 80 wheelbarrows full of cement,...
Hello Everyone, During the construction of my new growing room, a few clivia plants were left outdoors and exposured to near-frost temps. My reward yesterday...
Hi Denise, I live in the Western Cape and lived on a "fynbos" farm in the Stanford area near Hermanus for 10 years. I have heard all the stories about no clay...
Felicity Weeden
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Hallo Ian, Interesting tht there are so many Clivia in the Canaries. Havent been there, but have been to Madagascar and certainly neither heard nor saw of...
Felicity Weeden
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Can anybody recommend the most desirable ph level for Clivia growing, please? Best wishes Ian England...
The final part of my personal approach to Clivia growing is preparation for flowering. In the same crowded shed, the majority of the area is devoted to these...
... Chloroplast can be found in all three layers L1 ,L2 and L3 in monocots as clivia but dicots dont have chloroplast in the L! ... All three layers are always...
Claire, No, need to worry about phosphorus toxicity with Clivia you can feed them with just about anything. Everyone has their own 'Recipe' or 'Secret Blend' ...
... Mutated chloroplasts are more sendsitive to (UV) light The Akabone mutation ( the leaf halfway whiteYellow?) could be a so called temperature sensitive...
Hi Everyone, I still have a good variety of seed available for shipping within the United States. If interested, visit www.cliviacreations.com Shipping season...
Hi all, I have three types of Clivia, whilst I like them all I thought I would like to try and raise some the seed of my favourite. The Clivia is quite large...
Thought this might be a good time to show this as the plant is still alive after 3 maybe 4 years of sending up two or three leaves each year. The yellow leafed...
HI ALL, Original message in reply to Ian's query re: The above. Clivia Club News Letter Vol. 9 No 2 Winter 2000... Page 12..Quote:- THE proper ph for...
I love this white clivia, name which I keep forgetting. It blooms every fall without fail. No fertilizer, no tender loving care like I give my other...
Dickie Thanks for pH figure of 6.5 to 7 for variegated plants. I had been given a general figure of around 4 which is what caused my query. Can any native to...
As you suggest, I think you have answered the question you have raised. If the non pigmented shoot were removed from the parent, it would not survive. That...
Mary, Are you sure that it is a Clivia? To my knowledge, there are no white Clivias yet, just pale yellow ones. Could it be a Crypostephanus vansonii? Mary...
Hello Mary, Do you have a picture of your white clivia?? I'd like to see it. Better yet, do you have any seeds you'd be willing to part with???? carol...
Ton, I don't know if you have received any replies to this yet. For "Butterball" and "Snowball" seed , go to Cape Seed and Bulbs website at www.clivia.co.za ...
Hi Ian, In production we try to keep the pH between 5 and 6 (optimum between 5.2 and 5.7). Above 6 you might have some problems with yellowing leaves due to...
A better picture can be seen here of haemanthus albiflos. Why can't the clivias be like this species. http://www.plantzafrica.com/planthij/haemanalbif.htm ...
Hi All, We now have 533 members on the main list & another 45 on the Bouncing list. Every so often Rudo or I send reactivation messages to the members on this...
