My good friend Nannette gave me this clivia three years ago. The clivia summers under our pear tree and winters in a cold, dimly lit corner of Matt's "office," a small, precarious, dangerous perch above the staircase where a paperwork avalanche-waiting-to-happen also resides. The clivia likes being pot-bound and dried out, and I like providing those conditions for it.
Round about mid-February, I haul the clivia off the perch - in a teetering sort of way - and into the warm, bright kitchen, where a good soaking ensues. I put the clivia on a chair so it can be one of the family, and it responds in kind by promptly (about three days later) shooting up a flower spike.
If it happens to be sunny late in the afternoon, the clivia becomes charged with volcanic energy and turns this marvelous molten color.
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I will never forget the clivias at Lotusland in Santa Barbara. Yours is absolutely stunning, and to see them in mass? Amazing. See here....
http://www.lotusland.org/explore-garden/plant-highlights/april
What luminous colors! Really gorgeous. And how kind of you to go out of your way to provide its favorite growing conditions all winter. :)
Wow, I've never seen those before- and what an exemplary being that is! You're lucky you don't have furry four-legged devils jumping up on your tables, trying to sabatoge all plant life forms.
It brightens up the whole house, congratulations!
BEAUTIFUL Flower. I'd love to see a big butterfly perched on one of those.
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