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Breathtaking! Who would have ever thought that clivias would be so worthwhile planting.

I agree Doss, too die for. Elegant. I am crossing thtem now. I am in trouble.

Here is the most expensive one I bought. I got just the pup off it, too little to even flower but I was so thrilled to get that. It was the only one out of the 350,000 clivia in the greenhouse that was this color. I thought he would not sell it to me but I looked so pathetic begging, I think he took pity on me. And I had cash. LOL

Wouldn't it be funny if they only had one because it was ugly.......... and I had no clue. LOL

Hope you guys do not mind a side trip to clivia world on a rainy day.

There's no way that it's ugly. It glows. I hope that it does well for you. We all buy small pots of things because we can't afford the big ones! Or because they aren't available.

I love clivias, I got my first [only] clivia at target last Fall at half price, I was so happy! I love variagated plants, are the variagated clivias very expensive? Yours is beautiful kell!

It does glow Doss, it shined so much I had to get it. I think I was so lucky to get the pup. Though my favorite are the variegated ones that are heavily variegated. They are so entertaining even without flowers.

Kimmers, these were expensive because they were from a world renown clivia hybridizer so even if not warranted, the price goes up! LOL. You can expect to pay $150 on up for a small one. Though ebay has some from China which are much cheaper but also even smaller.

Here is the most variegated one I bought though it is too young to flower.

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Here are some he had, his mother plants. He won't sell these but he may sell the pups from them. They were huge plants too.

OMG!! Those are so beautiful!! If I when the lottery I'll buy one of his mother plants ;)

The variegation is beautiful. Gardens are to teach us patience as well as to reward us. You will be so amazed and grateful when this baby blooms.

Oh my goodness, those are just gorgeous, especially the varigated ones!

Oh Kimmers, I will go with you! Do you like to share??? LOL

How philosophical, Doss! My garden has failed me then. LOL.

When my Mom died, I realized abruptly and rudely that I too will die so now I take every short cut I can to bliss. If I can buy time, I do, though sadly I am limited to within my means.

I have been reading a lot about clivia recently. When I came across the article below, I realized sadly that I am too old to even start with them. But ask me how I spent my day! Collecting pollen and pollinating. It will take the resulting seedlings 6 years to even flower and then another 8 to 10 years to look their best. Oh to be a teenager again!

http://www.cliviasociety.org/grow_yourself_a_show_winner.php
"It is usual for six years to pass from the time you pollinate a clivia flower until the first flower of your F1 seedling opens. Now you must also remember that the first flower of a clivia is usually of poor quality. It will improve as the plant matures, and usually reaches a peak between eight and ten years. The quality will also fall off through disease or adverse conditions. There are a few tricks and aids, usually quite expensive, to reduce this time. Thus a teenager starting out could perhaps produce six or seven generations in his lifetime."

Here is one of my favs, it has pink edging. When I walk into my hoophouse, my eyes go right to it its fluorescent color.

Oh Sue, next time when I say ROAD TRIP you better come with me!!! I really had fun seeing plants that are so special and getting to take a few home with me.

The man who created these special colors as his life's work, is old now and I understand dying from cancer. Joe Solomone
http://www.northamericancliviasociety.org/tour_2004_march/Tour2004m2.html

Oh your killing me Kell, such beautiful pictures! I only have one that I bought about a year and a half ago, gotta find the names. It's potted & the snails made a feast of the leaves over the winter so I moved it and have to refresh the snail bait. I have yet to see it bloom because of the move from the garden it came from I guess This year I hope to see the blooms.

Kell, Emerisa Gardens was strictly wholesale until a few years ago, when they opened a retail section of the nursery. Their plants are very nice, but almost all of them are in 4-inch containers. Easier to plant, but not as quick to bloom. Their prices are quite reasonable and they have many different kinds of Alstroemeria, which is a great feature of any nursery, in my opinion.

I should add that if you drive all the way up here to Emerisa Gardens without stopping to see me, I'll have to slap you silly.

LOL Zuzu. When you see me, I will remind you of that threat. LOL. I can bring your rose. Well........................ I was going to email you tonight and ask about that nursery. I thought you had mentioned it before. Sue and I are on a quest for a specific plant I tracked to there. I have emailed them to see if they have it. If they do I will be there. LOL!! I will try to drag Sue for the nursery tour. She has been no fun for months but she seems to be getting in gear finally.

I want to go on a nursery crawl. Let's do Emerisa, Empire, and King's. Then if we have time, we can move on to Harmony Farms, Vintage Gardens, and Sonoma Hort.

I love your Clivia, by the way.

If they don't have your plant on the retail side of Emerisa Gardens, we can beg them to run over and get it from the wholesale side. They do that if you ask nicely.

Hey SUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. You have the huge plantmobile.......you drive!! I will pay for gas and lunch............................. lets GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You pay for gas. I'll pay for lunch. Bring that plantmobile up here!

We could all buy trees. LOL.

Yeah, I get it, you only want me for my wheels!

No time this week, heading up to the city on Friday to the Flower wholesale market with a bride and the related families, I am doing the bridal and bridesmaid bouquets and they need to select the flowers. Oh why did I agree to do this? (bangs head against wall)
I'll see how the next couple of weeks go, I have a daylily auction to prepare for next week along with some huge incoming plant orders to recieve and sort for our club. (more head banging)
I for sure don't want to do any nursery hopping if it's still raining.

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But where would we put those trees after we got them home? I still have about 100 roses in pots that have to go into the ground somewhere on this property.

I can wait, Sue. It'll give me time to clean my house so you and Kell won't faint when you see it. You'd think it would be clean with all of this rain keeping me inside, but no....

Hey Sue, you can squeeze in a day.

Look what I just found............at Emerisa Gardens. It is calling out our names, Sue!!!


http://www.calhortsociety.org/
Botanical Name: Alstroemeria Euro Spec 'Azula'
Common Name: "Peruvian Lily, Butterfly Lily"
Family: Alstromeriaceae
Origin:
Plant type: Perennial
Growth Rate: medium
Height: 3 feet
Width: 3 feet
Evergreen/Deciduous: Deciduous
Water: moderate/moist
Light: sun/part shade
Hardiness:
Soil: tolerant of bog
Flower Color/Season: "lilac/lavender, spring-fall"
Special Feature:
Nursery: emerisa gardens
Nursery City: "santa rosa, CA"
Grower Contact: www.emerisa.com

It was meant to be.

I've bought these in every imaginable color from Emerisa, and the 4-inch pots are only about $5, so they're a great bargain.

Usually you have to buy an 8 inch pot for too much $$! I want the dark purple A LOT! LOL

I love the purple, but I also love the red and the orange and the pink and the yellow and the....

I was happy to find a 'Crested Leopard' farfugium at Forest Farm nursery! I had been looking in the ligularia pew and forgot that they are moving some of them to the farfugium group. I love these plants and they are very hard to find. I've only seen them at Plant Delights for $15.00 plus outrageous shipping.
http://www.forestfarm.com/search/closeup.asp?PlantID=litu073

Sometimes I guess rain and a few good friends is a good thing!

You sound like me Zuzu, I like everything. And that is the truth.

Oh Doss, you have me so intrigued with your farfugiums. I am going to look into them. How can you not love something with such a fun name. And then they add 'Crested Leopard.'

I will not look... I will not look...must get work done....

The fargugium crispata ( or cristata - they can't decide on the spelling of anything!) is one of the plants that people are most interested in. They are spectacular but grey. It's a nice foliage color but it needs something to brighten it up - therefore the spotted ones.

Here are a couple of the spotted ones under some redwood trees - this is about as dark as a garden gets and they are evergreen too. They don't love to run out of water but tell you so. They sag and you water and they come right back. The crested ones only get afternoon sun.

Look into the ligularia too. They should be way more popular. Especially with people like us who are attracted to the weird and wonderful!

More rain today..enough already. I know, April showers bring may flowers but this is getting tiring.

Hi Kell,

It looks like you found Joe Solomone's Plant Horizon Nursery in Watsonville. I am the Northern California sales rep for Monterey Bay Nursery who is the distributor of his Clivias to Independant retail garden centers throughout California. There are so addicting! As you can imagine I have quite a collection also, even a variegated that blooms yellow - VERY RARE!!

Here is a link to Joe's Nursery

http://www.northamericancliviasociety.org/tour_2004_march/Tour2004m.html


Now, if you all want to do a road trip, why not come down for a personal tour of Monterey Bay Nursery? I know Sue wants to go, because she always asks and I usually respond "In my spare time ". Do I have any spare time ? Well if you can put together a group, maybe even Margie and Tracy and Sue's Mom, I will make time!!

Also we grow lots of Ligularias, about six varieties.

http://www.plantpictures.com/A.htm - PLANT INFORMATION WEBSITE



Cheers! Keith

Oh WOW Keith, how nice of you. I would love to come, how about today? LOL I will email around and get one together.

Yes, clivia are so addicting I have recently found. A clivia nut got me started and then he had a friend show me Plant Horizons. Took my breath away and also all my money. What a way to go broke though.

I am always seeing the Monterey Bay label on everything at the nurseries I go to. I also use your website a lot in identifying plants. I was thinking of asking Manuel the next time I go to Plant Horizons to sneak me into Monterey Bay. Better yet, let me buy direct. LOL

THANKS so much.

PS Keith!

WELCOME to Dave's. I hope you love it here as much as we all do. I just bet you are going to be one popular member. You already have me wanting to be your new best friend. LOL

Beautiful. You do have a large group of ligularia and some of the finest cultivars. What a generous offer of a tour! And the greenhouses are breathtaking.

Well thank you Kell. What city do you live in. I live 25 miles north of Sacramento in Plumas Lake.

If I take the group on a tour of Monterey Bay Nursery you will definitely get everything at wholesale price.

Cheers, Keith

im cold

Oh wow, that's not fair to us southerners. lol

Hello Keith and welcome to this wonderful garden site. We are all plant enablers and will do almost anything to get our hands on new and exciting new plants.

I just saw in one of my garden magazines, a new introduction of a Dwarf Crapemyrtle called Razzle Dazzle and fell in love with it immediatly!! I have a small garden and can't grow the larger variety, so figured this one would be up my alley. I have tried contacting several of my (good) local nurseries and they are not carrying them and also said, we might not be able to grow them here. :-(( So why can we grow the larger ones?

Back on the subject of weather...yes it's raining down here again too. It sprinkled on and off yesterday, but rained all night and still coming down. I want to play in the dirt soooo bad and hubby just doesn't understand why I can't. My local garden club that I belong too wants to come and see my gardens on May 6th for our clubs personal tour, and I can't get my hands dirty to make things special.
Do you have any connections with the weather God?? hehe

Donna in So Calif.

Oh oh, Keith, you are in such big trouble now! Kell will definately be there, you haven't seen a plant fanatic until you've met Kell!

By the way Kell, Keith is the one Miner's Claim is named after, his last name.

That's him in the red Hawaiian shirt. Tracy, (lilystorm) Margie's DIL on the far left, moi next to Keith and then our friend from So. Calif, Gary Colby on the far right, (southwestgarden on the Lily Auction) Margie took this shot.



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Nice to meet you, Keith!! Sue and I lust after Monterey Bay abutilons too. I always get so frustrated when they do not have pictures of their new intros. I have even emailed them for IDs when the tag is gone when I get them and a nice man answers me. Poor Sue, I drive her nuts with my plant emails, I am a true lover of plants, I am a generalist though. Certain ones do catch my fancy for awhile but there are too many kinds out there that call my name to get too caught up with just one kind.

Oh................ you are too nice. Now if I can get you to get me wholesale on the fancy clivas ........................ LOL

So do you have some clivia pics that I can see. I love looking. My clivia friend has the variegated yellow and also a pink. I went to get a pink but none were blooming so I didn't find one. Then I spent all my money on other colors. I am thinking of going back real soon to see if a pink is blooming that may be for sale. I just have to have a PINK clivia. LOL

Keith. Kell is the Queen of PINK!

We have fun enabling each other!