Achimenes Species, Sweet Achimenes

I have the purple variety. 4 big pots full ! I grow them outside here in Central Florida, let them go dormant in the fall and keep them u...Read Morender the plant bench thru winter. Every spring when I they start to shoot up sprouts, I repot, and end up with enough bulbs to do another whole pot. I have them growning in strawberrty pots, azalea pots, a generic plastic pot and one of those baskets w/ the coca ? mats in it. That's my least favorite cause it dries out so fast. They hang under the oak trees and bloom like crazy! No pics, but I'll try to get them this spring.

can be grown outdoors in frost free areas
treatment similar to african violet and gloxenia
best propagated by tubers or lea...Read Moref cutting
healthy plants can be very prolific