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Plants for mediterranean gardens => Bulbs (including other geophytes with corms, tubers, rhizomes etc) => Topic started by: David Dickinson on April 04, 2015, 07:28:12 PM
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Does anybody grow this in conditions similar to mine? That is, hot summers and mild springs and autumns with temperatures occasionally down to 0°c in January. I have one bulb in a pot which I keep moist. It produced flowers about 3 years ago. It has produced a series of little bulblets but they haven't really developed and only a couple have survived. I suspect that it may be in too much shade but on my balcony I either have relatively deep shade or full sun. Should I try full morning sun followed by afternoon shade? I know that it has a reputation for being a sporadic flowerer but mine doesn't even produce many leaves.
Any advice gratefully received.
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I have both red and yellow forms and grow them in pots that stand in almost full sun, and always in the weather. I do not disturb them so the clumps are well packed in the pots. In fact the red clump has cracked its pot and now stands, undisturbed, in another pot. I feed them throughout the growing season. We get frosts too, but no freezes. The yellow is less vigorous but o/wise both flower quite well.
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Thanks for the useful info Trevor. I will get them into full sun for at least the mornings and see how they go on from there. Hope I might have some photos of the flowers to put on the forum this year. :)
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I have found another supplier of Cyrtanthus elatus in Italy and I am hoping to get some bulbs at the Landriana plant fair at the end of April. In the meantime my Cyrtanthus mackenii, which I believe to be var cooperi, have flowered. They have flowered before the orange C mackenii hybrid I have which was a point made back in 2011 by Heinie