This sounds like a great garden plant, with showy yellow and orange flowers that make great cut flowers from June to frost. It is said to...Read More be hardy into Z5 with winter mulch.
Said to bloom continuously from June till frost.
Needs a moist rich well-drained soil. In hot summer climates, keep the roots cool with a heavy mulch and protect from hot afternoon sun.
On well established plants, flower stems should be harvested by pulling rather than cutting, both because it's easier and because pulling stimulates the production of new flower stems.
Modern garden alstroemerias form clumps and do not spread aggressively like the older forms.
Hybridized by Mark Bridgen at Cornell. US PP # 22701
This sounds like a great garden plant, with showy yellow and orange flowers that make great cut flowers from June to frost. It is said to...Read More