I hope I can keep it alive! I got my Kartuz order today... with vulcanicola & a sanguinea 'Yellow Queen'. The plants look fabulous too :o) I'm so excited.... I wish it would warm up here. I thought I'd have all my plants outside by now ... but NOOOooooOOOooo. It's still too darn cold, windy, & wet.
I GOT A VULCANI COLA!!
Sue - Just put them in a light windowsill or if you have a frostfree greenhouse and daytemperatures over 20*C. They will not only live, they will thrive very good :-)
I am so lucky for you, that you got these two. I have seen pictures of the vulcanicola, that is supposed to be pink and also the yellow sanguinea. Here`s hoping, that the weather soon will be on your side, so you can get them out :-)
Their catalog desription says large pink flowers with deeper pink stripes and sanguinea type foliage. They call it vulcanica (??) - not sure if that's a typo? I sure hope I can keep it going... specially since I killed Rotor Vulcan this winter.
That sounds strange, poppysue!
Lucky you. I'll keep my fingers crossed they grow nice and big for you. Finally made it to York Beach today with GS. Boy it sure was cold and windy in Maine. I'm sitting here still trying to thaw out. Had to drive through a snowstorm on the Kangamangas this morning to get there.
Can you post a picture? Please remember that these don't like to be treated like the other brugs. They really don't like the heat, the mid-day sun or anything over 80F ( and in my opinion that's pushing it. Mine are at their best in late spring/early summer and fall. They love fall. Bright days with reasonable warmth and cooler nights.
Monika - are you thinking it sounds like a Lilac?
Vulcanicola doesnt like Temperatures above 12°C and is adapted to vulcanic soil and is very very difficult to grow.
The soil should contain vulcanic material, lava, if possible.
By the description, poppysue has given, I do not believe, its vulcanicola. The leaves are toothed as by vulc. but very glossy. Large pink flowers sounds really strange. Even for Lilac.
Poppysue should place a picture of the leaves.
Maybe vulcanic materials could be mixed into the growing soil. As a child I had a big, 500 litre aquarium with Malawi-Chiclids. These are fund of caves and rock-like structures and I remember building these with lava-stones, - it was a brownish-red and light structure, weighted close to nothing ... could these be crushed and added to create vulcanic soil?
I still know, where to get them :-)
These leaves are fuzzy. I wonder if it is a hybrid?? The plant is small but I will post a picture.
Sue ,I wonder if you pulverize some lava rock for the grill and add it???
I thought of that CC!! Hmmmmm....
Would pumice work? Isn't that sold as an ingredient for orchid mix??
PoppySue, Can I get the full name of the company you ordered these two from?
Patricia