Brooksville, FL (Zone 9b) | January 2010 | positive
Clivia miniata ‘Sir John Thouron’
This rare yellow-flowered clivia was named for Sir John Thouron, who gardens at Glencoe Farm...Read Mores in Pennsylvania. Sir John received this plant from Queen Elizabeth II in Scotland many years ago and brought it to Philadelphia in the 1950s. Longwood Gardens facilitated the naming of the cultivar and distribution of this plant. In the early 1990s, White Flower Farm, a retail mail-order company in Connecticut, made the first commercial offering of this clivia and sold 36 plants for $950 each. On several occasions, a plant has been in the annual Rare Plant Auction held by the Delaware Center for Horticulture, and it has raised over $1,000 each time. Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland entered one in the Philadelphia Flower Show in 1999 and received the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society award of the highest-scoring blue ribbon entry.
Clivia miniata ‘Sir John Thouron’
This rare yellow-flowered clivia was named for Sir John Thouron, who gardens at Glencoe Farm...Read More