Hallo Harald!

No problem, will go faster as if I should try it in German....

Viele Grüße,
Aart

Hallo Harald,

Germination inhibition as observed in many plant species has a natural cause as you also mentioned. Seeds should germinate in the best season to survive, so in many plant species the seeds are ripe in autumn (northern hemisphere) but if they would germinate directly they would die by ...

Hello!

Tetje asked me to post some new Clivia material , so here it is.

Hartelijke groeten,

Aart

I have here a couple of pictures from Karkloof SA sept 2014 with flowering C.miniata as an epiphyt on a tree

Hi all,

Tetje asked me for some habitat pictures.
Here some from Gods Window in Southafrica.

SCU01 14 d.JPG CSU01 compilatie2.jpg Hallo Tetje,

Fred found this material at a specific place long time ago before Clivia robusta was named. There was the Swamp gardenii (is now also Clivia robusta) and he found that it was not the same, but a species is almost never clear cut. There are some ...

Hallo Martin,

maybe I will name it after the second time it will flower, hope it will be even better then. Now I have crossed it with 4Bossie ( verbesserte Deklan ) to get more open, recurved flowers.

Hartelijke Groeten,
Aart

Hi all,

this one is bred by the late Fred van Niekerk from South Africa who gave me a few seedlings in 2006.
He is well known in the Clivia world because of his Maxima plants. He claimed that they were a separate species in Clivia, but nowadays most people place them within the Clivia robusta group ...

Hi all,
One of the nicer new types, coming from Clivia minata X C.robusta white and made tetraploid with colchicine.

Hartelijke Groeten,
Aart

Ah, C. mirabilis, it stays the most difficult one to grow.
I have six plants, but even my oldest ones from 2005 are
not of flowering size. The biggest was repotted this year, what he didn't liked.
Two of his leaves got brown edges and the new leaf grows very slow.
Which brings me to the (maximum ...