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Acitanthera plant (peacock orchid

SueF11SueF11 Posts: 19
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I am currently tidying up the garden (new to gardening) and I am unsure what to do with the Acitanthera plant (peacock orchid). I have read that the bulbs need lifting after the foliage has died back - is this the case? (the site I read this on was referring to USA zones)

Any advice and guidance would be appreciated.

Location - North Yorkshire

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,064

    I grow mine in pots and take them in for winter, either in the pots or lifted and wrapped in paper.   They don't like to be frozen.   

    This year I discovered that they'd made babies in one pot which is permanently placed on a manhole in a sheltered spot facing south and they have grown and flowered this year - but then last winter was exceptional and we had no real frosts, certainly not more than 2 or 3 degrees even in the exposed north facing parts of the garden..

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FSFS Posts: 8

    i have some peacock orchid bulbs and would like to plant them along the front wall of the house, but it's north-west facing - would they struggle/die in that position?

    i'm on the north side of edinburgh

  • FSFS Posts: 8

    edit: double post :P

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,064

    They won't like it there.  They are from South Africa and easy to grow as long as they get full sun - http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/flowers/peacock-orchid/growing-peacock-orchids.htm

     

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FSFS Posts: 8

    ah

    thanks

    good to know..i have a south-east facing wall too but we nearly always use the entrance on the north-west side so won't get to enoy them as much. also the local kids like kicking a ball around and generally making a mess by the south-west wall...

    my other option is a patch of south-facing ground opposite us that i reclaimed where i'd get the value out of looking at them, but some disgruntled neighbour pulled up some narcissi and tulips i planted there and threw them around a couple of weeks ago..i put them back in the ground and they're doing well and have been left alone since though. that's probably my only option for them as the windowboxes are already jam-packed.

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