Bulbs: Double Calla., 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Robert mine was also from Langeveld, in a packet. I checked it out and that is the only one they have that it could be, their pic shows a darker throat as far as I can see, but it does look a little darker, they often do though in their advertising pics. Take Anneke for a colour blow up!

The leaves and height check out, you can even see a little white in some of the flowers.

http://www.langeveld.nl/index.cfm?fuseaction=plants.plantDet...

Look at the Photo menu at the side, the California Callas (at the top) there is Improved Gem Rose, I wonder if yours is an Improved GR or just a Gem Rose, it doesn't look to have the dark throat. There is Improved Gem Lavender, the description of it say it's an improvement of the older Gem Rose/Lavender, with more vigour and more uniflorm colour.

http://www.zantedeschia.com/frame1.htm

If you want a white one Z albomaculata is a vigorous, easy and quite hardy one. The spathes are not very large, but the leaves are large and lots of spots, It makes seed too, I have a few nearly 3 years old now, if you leave the seed head whole and bury it in the pot at the side of the plant they grow best that way, frost and all, starting next summer. I got seed from Z. Pink Mist, the first mature head I put 20 seed in a propogator as it is suppposed to be fresh and sown straight away. I only got 4, from December sowing. The second head of seed I wasn't sure if it was mature, so left it on top of the pot all winter and they are just starting to grow, I have shoved a bit of compost over them but really should now put them in pots. I have read that some seed needs to be left in its seed head and buried as a whole, this looks to be one of them, they had lots of cold and frost to -7C. I had a lot of seed from 2004 of Z albomaculata, they were still green when cold set in so I separated them and put them all in pots, the outer coverings were green but the seed seemed mature. I had around 200! I only got about 5 growing, they have small bulbs now and are looking OK. When you leave the seed heads to rot, dry and overwinter it must mature them, the seed hardens totally and when it warms up they just need that bit of moisture under them to sprout.

Z. Mr. Martin is another that is reliable and has wider spathes, an improvement on Z. aethiopica. I got mine last year and it flowered, set seed and they started to grow in the autumn on the pot, so I transplanted them then and I have most of them regrowing now.

Z albomaculata, not so many flowers last year as it was cold but it does well.