Years ago, when we started in clivias we discussed the idea of breeding for multipetal interspecifics with Rudo Lotter and his dad, it was something we thought could create an interesting and different facet to interspecifics and an avenue that…
In our early days of Clivia collecting we bought and imported some Chinese plants through eBay. In those days with the internet as unreliable as it was in South Africa, we rarely succeeded in winning lots as bidders from countries…
Andrew Gibson In our early years in clivias one of the plants that attracted us to this hobby was Andrew Gibson. In a time when peaches were still rare this plant with its red splashed sepals on the outside was…
“In Miriam Meltzer’s vast collection of some 50000 orange clivias, mostly grown from seed, there are two or three with orange flowers and yellow berries. It is not surprising that in this vast collection three yellows arose, but with a…