Tulbaghia

[Hoy]

I got this Tulbaghia simmleri (syn fragrans) when I visited South Africa some years ago. It is flowering every year at the same time but this year I have to stand it inside due to the cold weather. The flowers have a pleasant scent!

[Maggi Young]

Trond,  I can imagine that you might put this plant outside in summer to "take the air" but I would not expect it would ever cope with outdoor winter temperatures. How cold would you say it has been able to live through?

[Ezeiza]

I have seen fine clumps of it under frost free conditions in what could be described as a citrus belt. That is warm conditions with a mild winter. The foliage is broad, greyish and erect, really attractive in its own.

[Anthony Darby]

Citrus belt. That means I could grow it!  It has lovely double flowers. I have seedlings of T. violacea germinating. This time I know they are correct as I harvested them myself.

[Hoy]

Trond,  I can imagine that you might put this plant outside in summer to "take the air" but I would not expect it would ever cope with outdoor winter temperatures. How cold would you say it has been able to live through?

I move the pot indoors when I expect prolonged frost as I don't think the bulbs take any freezing in a pot. Last spring we had mild weather i February and March and experienced night temps down to -5C in early April. It stood outside all the time so I suppose it takes some degrees of frost as long as the pot/bulbs don't freeze.

So I move it indoors in November/December and out when the spring. No spring in sight yet

[johnralphcarpenter]

Tulbaghia violacea.

[Cfred72]

With us, they live in the garden. It sometimes freezes to -15 ° C