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Nerines
Joyce Goldenlily
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Having grown nerines for some years with varying amounts of success, some years no flowers, some years quite a few. I have been made to rethink my methods.
I was watching a nature program about S. Africa which included a section on "rock hyracs?" A bit like miniature guinea pigs which live on the mountains amongst the rocky outcrops.
As I watched I noticed nerine flowers growing from the cracks and crevices. The leaves could hardly been seen, the bulbs covered by rock chippings in the crevices.
Is this where their love of being crowded together, piled up on top of each other comes from? I assume the rocks protect them from the low night time temperatures. There could be very little depth of soil for the bulbs and roots, lots of drainage and hot day time heat where they were growing.
My plants put on a lovely display last year having been left outside, unfed or tended for more than a year, this year I was planning to tip them out of their pots, divide and repot but that hasn't happened. The bulbs are now hanging over the edge of their pots, piled up on top of each other, no fresh compost and very little watering this year. I am sure they will be smaller is size compared to the lush well fed beauties grown as lonely, individual bulbs with proper compost. I will see. I have decided to leave mine alone to see what happens. Is bigger always best I wonder?
I was watching a nature program about S. Africa which included a section on "rock hyracs?" A bit like miniature guinea pigs which live on the mountains amongst the rocky outcrops.
As I watched I noticed nerine flowers growing from the cracks and crevices. The leaves could hardly been seen, the bulbs covered by rock chippings in the crevices.
Is this where their love of being crowded together, piled up on top of each other comes from? I assume the rocks protect them from the low night time temperatures. There could be very little depth of soil for the bulbs and roots, lots of drainage and hot day time heat where they were growing.
My plants put on a lovely display last year having been left outside, unfed or tended for more than a year, this year I was planning to tip them out of their pots, divide and repot but that hasn't happened. The bulbs are now hanging over the edge of their pots, piled up on top of each other, no fresh compost and very little watering this year. I am sure they will be smaller is size compared to the lush well fed beauties grown as lonely, individual bulbs with proper compost. I will see. I have decided to leave mine alone to see what happens. Is bigger always best I wonder?
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