Let us know how you get on Rosa as I and my friend have lost bare root and pots of alstroemeria in our gardens repeatedlt in bristol's alkaline soil. Perhaps neutral is required. Mine are being cossetted in ericaceous compost in pots this year. It is a flower rarely seen in gardens round here. In fact I do not know anyone who has had success.
forgot to say I have seen many slides of them in their native habitat, in hillside, very acid woods in Chile. These are the species and in all kinds of lovely colours. We are building a Chilean garden at the Bristol botanic Garden so i am hoping to learn from that.
hope you have great success with your plants I inherited mine from selfset seeds from my neighbours garden quite a few years ago and everyyear they put on a marvellous display my soil is neutral on a veryshallow sandstone bedrock base but they seem to thrive on it.it's great to sit out inthe garden with the old G & T when the seed pods are ripe it just sounds like loads of champagne corks popping as they distribute their seeds for yet more plans next year.
Oh, I love orchestral plants. My Tulipa turkistanica close up their flower heads (three or four on each stem) when it goes cloudy to protect the pollen from the rain. When thesun shines again they pop open making lovely music in the garden till all are open.
I live in Orkney I planted alstromeria ligtu hybrids from seed. They seeded all over my herbaceous border reverting back to species. I have had to dig up the whole border, taking barrowloads of thick white tubers out of the ground. I would certainly not plant them again . Maybe pots are the way to go. The tubers are two spits deep right down in the clay subsoil. I think I will be digging them out forever.
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Let us know how you get on Rosa as I and my friend have lost bare root and pots of alstroemeria in our gardens repeatedlt in bristol's alkaline soil. Perhaps neutral is required. Mine are being cossetted in ericaceous compost in pots this year. It is a flower rarely seen in gardens round here. In fact I do not know anyone who has had success.
forgot to say I have seen many slides of them in their native habitat, in hillside, very acid woods in Chile. These are the species and in all kinds of lovely colours. We are building a Chilean garden at the Bristol botanic Garden so i am hoping to learn from that.
Just potted them. I had some longer than usual pots that you get climbers so have put them in those, on bottom shelf in GH till they get going.
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hope you have great success with your plants I inherited mine from selfset seeds from my neighbours garden quite a few years ago and everyyear they put on a marvellous display my soil is neutral on a veryshallow sandstone bedrock base but they seem to thrive on it.it's great to sit out inthe garden with the old G & T when the seed pods are ripe it just sounds like loads of champagne corks popping as they distribute their seeds for yet more plans next year.
Oh, I love orchestral plants. My Tulipa turkistanica close up their flower heads (three or four on each stem) when it goes cloudy to protect the pollen from the rain. When thesun shines again they pop open making lovely music in the garden till all are open.
I live in Orkney I planted alstromeria ligtu hybrids from seed. They seeded all over my herbaceous border reverting back to species. I have had to dig up the whole border, taking barrowloads of thick white tubers out of the ground. I would certainly not plant them again . Maybe pots are the way to go. The tubers are two spits deep right down in the clay subsoil. I think I will be digging them out forever.
Moira