I know i will have a very long wait before my two "Clivia",..will bloom but the one below is growing very well,..thank you to Cayuga Morning who sent me the seed. Clivia from seed. ( photo / image / picture from Philip Nulty's Garden ) Last summer when i visited my doctor with a cyst on one eye i still kept an eye out for cuttings,..so i sneaked a wee cutting from her "Ficus Tree",..its thriving. "Ficus Tree". ( photo / image / picture from Philip Nulty's Garden ) Do you all remember my great "Amaryllis",..with two stems and 10 blooms,..well it produced a big seed pot and about 200 seeds,..looks like i will have a few more "Amaryllis",..growing this year,..how the plant looks now,..bare of blooms but all of 26 inches high. ( photo / image / picture from Philip Nulty's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Philip Nulty's Garden ) Happily i have five new roses coming along from cuttings taken last summer. ( photo / image / picture from Philip Nulty's Garden )
Nice plants you have there Philip. :-D Your clivia may surprise you later on in the year and produce a flower stalk. I have one roughly about the same size as yours (maybe a tad bigger) and it has flowered for the last two years. If you plant up your amaryllis seeds be patient with them as the resulting bulbs will take anywhere from three to five years to reach blooming size. Remember too that the parent amaryllis bulb will have been grown, and sold for the holidays and are hybrids, so not all of the offspring will be the same as the parent plant. Those new roses are doing well. You have far better results from the cuttings you plant than I do.
Hi Cayuga Morning,..partial,..is right seeing your seed growing over here should make you smile,..thank you again. ===================================================== Hi Eileen,..that is a bonus if mine produces a bloom this summer,..if yours does then i have hope. As for the Amaryllis i was thinking it might take some time to mature from seed,.. :'( but dangrabbit three to five years,..let me count,..what age i am,.. i add three to five years to that and...... ,..though it might be interesting to hang about to see what sort of bloom it will produce,.. I have great luck with rose cuttings,..in particular those five,..now as for cuttings from other rose bushes in the garden their cuttings don't take as easy,..same method,..strange.
Here is a photo of the parent plant Philip. Parent Clivia, Feb 2014, taken in my office ( photo / image / picture from Cayuga Morning's Garden ) close up of flower. It has a very faint odor, like vanilla ( photo / image / picture from Cayuga Morning's Garden ) Thought you might like to see a recent photo of the parent clivia Philip. I am glad to see your baby clivia is doing so well. I am also impressed that you have seeds from your amaryllis. I have never seen that. Good luck propa gating them.
CM, That is an awesome clivia. Philip your amaryllis reminded me to go check on mine. I left it outside until the snow had covered the pot and I had to cut the ivy that had grown out of the pot into the flower bed...I thought for sure I had killed the poor thing, but it is growing again, although I am wondering if I froze the flower bud because I am not seeing any coming out and there are several leaves popped out. from several different places on the pot/. The bulb must need divided soon, huh?
Beautiful. My older sister had a clivia once upon a time. Wonder what ever happened to it (probably died...she's not the best with plants :/)
Great looking assortment of babies you have there Philip. I'm still envious of anyone who can get cuttings to take. And Cayuga... that's a gorgeous Clivia!
Cheryl, I agree. I am impressed with folk here who have such success with propagating plants like roses & azaleas. I have tried but not succeeded. Glad you like the clivia.
Hi Cayuga morning,..wow that is a very beautiful Clivia Bloom,..i am looking forward to seeing my Clivia producing something similar,..nice to see the parent of my offspring,.. . =================================================== Hi Carolyn,..it seems your Amaryllis is still alive despite the severe cold weather,..as for dividing,..i am not at all familiar with the bulb itself,..i don't honestly know if it will need dividing or does it produce further bulbs from the parent,..maybe it just reproduces from the seeds,..Cayuga Morning would be the best person to furnish this info. ================================================== Hi Cheryl,..i am an addict to collecting cuttings,..just can not resist taking one of something i do not have,..our climate is ideal for cuttings to take root and so my success,.. . ================================================= Oh below is the Amaryllis seed pod,..inside this there are sections which contain the paper light seeds as also pictured below. Amaryllis Seed Pod. ( photo / image / picture from Philip Nulty's Garden ) Amaryllis Seeds. ( photo / image / picture from Philip Nulty's Garden )
Philip-- Thanks for your confidence in me, but I know very little about amaryllis. Clivia, yes, amaryllis, no. For example, I have never seen an amaryllis seed pod such as the one you have posted. Good luck with your planting of those seeds. Let us know how it goes.
Hi Cayuga Morning,..you are welcome as you do come across as a very confident gardener,..as for the Amaryllis producing offset bulbs,..i found it hard to find somewhere that covered this but in the end came across the link below that does mention this,..hope Carolyn spots this. http://houseplants.about.com/od/foliage ... ryllis.htm
