Clivia, Coleus and Crotons info please

Oceanside, CA(Zone 10b)

I've found a wonderfully shady, but filtered canopy light place to grow some clivia and some crotons together. Should make for some nice, bright color. Can I grow them together? I just read that crotons are acid-loving... I'd also like to add in some Coleus too.

Also I'm interested in getting different varieties of Crotons, how do you find them?
I especially would like to find some of the Picasso's Paintbrush variety
Here's a pic of one of my Clivia, I have about 8 of them to transplant.
They are in full bloom right now. Hope it won't hurt them to tranplant in this condition.

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Oceanside, CA(Zone 10b)

Clivia are so Tangerine. If you looked up tangerine in the dictionary, a Clivia would be there, not a tangerine.

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Oceanside, CA(Zone 10b)

Clivia are cool. They are so pretty and they self-propagate. I started with one Clivia about 7 years ago. I now have about 9 total plants. And growing.

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Key West, FL(Zone 11)

here's a good link for croton pics. I find mine at HD all the time, That company "little angels" has Picasso every now and then.

[HYPERLINK@www.crotons.net]

Oceanside, CA(Zone 10b)

Yeah I bought two nice crotons there yesterday and I might go back and get two more, they were nice healthy specimens. I've seen that crotons.net link they have some nice pics there but no info on where to get them...

I might try their contacts to see where that takes me...

Key West, FL(Zone 11)

My favourite is called mrs iceton, its a slow low grower, withb yellow leave sthat pature as pale pink.

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