Parrot Lily, Parrot Flower, Peruvian Lily, Lily of the Incas, Princess Lily 'Sara'
Alstroemeria
This is 'Princess Sara'® (one of the 'Princess Lilies® Series'). It is a dwarf Peruvian lily that has beautiful blooms and makes a great groundcover. Its flowers are sort of a golden orange with distinctive pink and white throats.
That's pretty, htop!
The pink one you gave to me is still blooming, but it has no more new flower stalks arising. Do you think I could cut the whole thing back in a few weeks and carefully repot it to a 2 gallon pot? Or should I wait until the foliage dies down on it's own? Any advice is appreciated, since you have vastly more experience than I do with this genera.
We are still having frosts here! My greenhouse is bursting with tender plants that need set out, but I am glad I have waited...several people have lost plants to frost this spring already and a few more nights are predicted. After spending $$$$ all winter to keep them 60 degrees at night, I would hate to send them into shock by exposing them to these 30's we are having. Hope your weather is good!
I really am glad I found this one. Mine has blooms still, but like yours is not puttimg out anymore bloom stalks. I think that I would wait for it to die back. Then, let the soil dry out so that when you remove it from the container that the bulbs and roots are more likely to stay together. One of mine is already going dormant for some reason. I just let it do its thing and it will reappear when it chooses to do so.
Egads, more frosts there! I bet you are frustraed with not being able to move your plants out of the greenhouse. I suppose it is a jungle in there now. The weather has been unusually cool here. It was near 50 the other night after being 93 that day. My plants are confused and some of my perennials are way behind in their development. My part of San Antonio needs rain very badly. It has rained some in other parts of town, but this has been the driest April since sometime in the 1800s. I hope this is not a forboding of things to come such as an extended drought. The wildflowers were beautiful because we had an abundance of rain in February and March. But they have scorched in a lot of areas due to the dry April.
I am sorry to hear that your drought is so severe. It has not rained much here either, but the weather has been so cool that things have not dried out much.
Here is the greenhouse...I took out the really large plants (tree fern, sago, azalea, etc) to make room for the bedding plants. I think I need more benches!
Notice the lovely 'Mona Lavender' on the right :)
The cool weather here has helped with the no rain sitution too. Yep, your greenhouse looks like I had imagined it ... full of beautiful plants. That mona lavender is doing very well and I smiled really big when I saw it.
My stepson brought me a magnificent chrome plated (8 feet wide, 4 feet tall and 2.5 feet from front to back) shelving unit with shelves that I can adjust for height. The shelves are actually 2 shelves that meet at the center (except for the bottom ones). In other words, I can make the front of the shelf lower than the back of the shelf or vice versa. The shelves themselves are actually racks that look like oven racks so the water will drip through. It will go into my greenhouse and is just perfect. Then, he brought me 2 other shelving units that are somewhat taller and each has a bar that goes across the top in the middle. By removing the first shelf on each, I can place my hanging baskets at the top. He has 3 more of these for me if I want them. I think I will put the other 3 somewhere in my yard. Here's a photo of Dave and his friend Jorge standing in front of the chrome plated racks. I need to level the floor of my greenhouse before I can them inside. There are a lot more shelves that go with it ... I just didn't take the time to insert them.
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That looks great, Hazel. Having a shelf like that outside would be great for hardening off plants, too. I just carry mine out and set them along the driveway to get used to the wind, sun, etc. Looks tacky. I just about had them ready to go in the ground and then this current COLD spell of 12 days came along. Glad I did not have them planted out.
Actually, I used to have more benches in my GH, but took them out to make way for large plants. I just need more GH period! And a GH sitter so I can go off on vacations, etc. ha.
My daughter IS moving to Colorado this summer, so we will be out there twice, plus our trip to Washington, so my stuff is probably gonna die anyway. Pets and plants need to be reserved for folks who never leave home, I guess.
I can smell my confederate jasmine...it is loaded with blooms right now and is in the house cause it is so cold outside. Heavenly!
My stepson may be able to obtain another shelving unit like the one in the photo. I could use one outside. I have some wonderful neighbors who will take care of my plants and animals when I'm away from home which is seldom. The confederate jasmine must make your whole house small great.
If you pull--not cut--the flower stalks after they bloom but before they start making seed pods and the vegetative stalks when they start to turn yellow the plant stays pretty tidy and will resprout after a short rest. They do better in the ground where it is warm enough in the winter. They are not adverse to water and fertilizer, though they seem to do fine without much of the latter. In the ground it seems to take a while for them to get going. Better soil produces better flowers. On regular ligtu hybrids, if they are supported, they will grow to five feet or more and spread, though not too agressively.
Chuck1260, thanks for the information. I had never heard of them growing 5 feet tall with support. I have 2 kinds of the compact 'Princess Series" growing in the ground that were planted last year. They are just magnificent and have been blooming for a long period of time. I really like these because they tend to stay more upright due to their compact nature. They are spreading nicely and forming a great groundcover. Unfortunately, my neighbor's free roaming cat went right through the middle of one clump and bent them down. I have never fertilized mine; but, my soil is fertile. The larger types and the one pictured are in containers. Mine are in filtered sun. Have you tried growing them in full sun?
Fun older thread!
By the way, there is a separate PF entry for this particular cultivar.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/177178/
Thanks for telling me there is a separate entry. I will ask for the photos to be moved.
