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Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6
Just as a warning, be prepared to pay through the nose! 
Clivia's are considering difficult to propagate and slow growing. It can take up to 18 months for a plant grown from seed to be transplanted, meaning what you buy in the nursery can be years old not months like many other plants. From seed to a flowering plant can take 5 - 7 years! What you end up buying is the nurseryman's time. Red and yellow flowing varieties are even rarer and harder to propagate, again inflating the price.
Let me know how you go. |
ah huh Thanks DFB.
The wife has been doing her walks with friends in the our street and noticed next to our friends place their neighbour has some red ones !
She is gonna ask if we can did up a clump
fingers crossed they won't mind.