LEWISIA-2012

[Lesley Cox]

'Constant Comment' is very fine. Very floriferous and nice and compact on short stems. I like it a lot.

[brianw]

Are these Lewisia colour forms grown from seed strains or micro-propagated?

I have some Lewisia tweedyi with odd flowers now, and they were only sown in February from Nargs "yellow form" seed. They are just a pale yellow so far, with some slight orange/pink, so guess they don't come true.

[Lesley Cox]

Plants of Lewisia tweedyi as 'Ashford Yellow' were offered at the NZ Trillium Group weekend last year and I bought two. As I remember all those on offer were in bloom with consistently yellow flowers. Not a rich, golden type of yellow but definitely yellow, all the same as I recall. I had just 5 seeds from my two plants and all are up, small, unflowered plants as yet.

I thought I had lost the two originals as the foliage got a bit overgrown by other things and rotted but just last week I found both are growing away strongly from the centres.

I also bought a good yellow cotyledon form a couple of weeks ago at our OAGG Show. The colour is the same as that of the tweedyi plants.