Tecophilaea 2011

[Alex]

New season underway, here's T. cyanocrocus today.

Alex

[Maggi Young]

My word Alex, your spring season is in good flow! .... or should that be flower? 

[Tony Willis]

Alex

did you keep them frost free?

Everybody I know around here did not and we have lost the lot.

[Alex]

Hi Tony,

Yes, everything is always kept a few degrees above freezing due to a previous bad experience...

Alex

[PeterT]

Tony, not everyone. We have a mutual friend whom I visited last week, with a goot pot full in an outside frame

[Kirsten]

There are many flowers in my Tecophilea cyanocrocus. But I can't get Tecophilea viridiflora to flower. It will increase every year but no flowers. Can someone help me?
Table with Tecophilea cyanocrocus.
Tecophilea violiflora

[Maggi Young]

Tecophilaea violiflora usually only has the one leaf, while the floral stem has a few little flowers ..... you potful all look to have two leaves.... I wonder if something has gone wrong to cause the bulbs to make more foliage at the expense of flowers?

[Hans A.]

Marvellous plants Alex and Kirsten!
I agree with Maggi, leaves look something strange for this species - here a picture I took last weekend of Tecophilaea violiflora, apologies for the bad quality.

[Michael J Campbell]

My Tecophilaea have just poked their noses above the soil in the last week, seedlings have also appeared in the last couple of days. I thought I head lost the lot.

[Ezeiza]

Kirsten, T. violiflora comes from a warmer region than cyanocrocus. T. violiflora can be grown well like one would a Cape bulb.

[johnw]

There are many flowers in my Tecophilea cyanocrocus. But I can't get Tecophilea viridiflora to flower. It will increase every year but no flowers. Can someone help me?
Table with Tecophilea cyanocrocus.
Tecophilea violiflora

Good grief white Tecophileas! I had no idea, even some kissed blue.  How did I manage to miss those?

johnw

[Kirsten]

Tecophilaea violiflora usually only has the one leaf, while the floral stem has a few little flowers ..... you potful all look to have two leaves.... I wonder if something has gone wrong to cause the bulbs to make more foliage at the expense of flowers?

You are right it has two leaves. I got it from Gothenburg Botanical Garden, I will ask them if they have an explanation next time I see them.

[Lesley Cox]

There are many flowers in my Tecophilea cyanocrocus. But I can't get Tecophilea viridiflora to flower. It will increase every year but no flowers. Can someone help me?
Table with Tecophilea cyanocrocus.
Tecophilea violiflora

Good grief white Tecophileas! I had no idea, even some kissed blue.  How did I manage to miss those?

johnw

Well I was thinking green, but that's probably even more unlikely.