Lewisia 2015

[Johan K.]

Very nice to see Johan, mine will be a couple of weeks yet.

Thanks David.

[Johan K.]

Sun Ray lamps?

Nothing special.
These plants are in an unheated greenhouse.

[Mark Griffiths]

has anyone got a strong well flowering pure White Lewisia tweedyi - mine just limps along from year to year - never produces many flowers and never seen any seed off it - all the other colours do well with me just the white plant I have never looks good?

I had a nice one. Right up to the time it died

[David Nicholson]

I had a nice one. Right up to the time it died

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Funnily enough so has mine, I thought I was tempting Providence.

[Mark Griffiths]

I had a mixed seed pot - var rosea and alba (from the year before). I had hoped I had several albas but it seems all the rest were roseas. If anything the alba was bigger and more vogorous than the roseas.

[Johan K.]

A few flowering Lewisia.

Photo 1 and 2 Lewisia cotyledon

Photo 3 Lewisia cotyledon 'Patty's Plum'

[Johan K.]

Photo 1 Lewisia 'George Henley'

Photo 2 Lewisia 'Ashwood Carousel'

Photo 3 Lewisia columbiana

[Johan K.]

And a first flower in the rockgarden on a Lewisia cotyledon hybrid.

[David Nicholson]

Johan, nice collection there. Are they all in the garden, I have never dared to try them outside in my climate?

[Johan K.]

Thanks for the nice comment David.

Only the last picture is taken in the garden.
Other plants in the garden will start to flower soon.

The other plants stand in an unheated greenhouse in a pot, and a few in a small rockgarden in an open greenhouse.

[Johan K.]

Two Lewisia cotyledon 'Patty's Plum' in pot.

And Lewisia cotyledon hybrid in the garden.

[Roma]

Lewisia rediviva

I think this is their third flowering from seed sown in January 2009
I had seed from AGS and SRGC seed exchanges but it was from the same donor.  Many thanks to Mr & Mrs Fowler for collecting such fine seed which has given me plants that have survived my hit or miss cultivation for longer than any I've had before.

[Maggi Young]

Roma, thanks for showing these fantastic flowers. They are so gorgeous. 

[David Nicholson]

Lovely Roma, I never have any success with rediviva.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Lewisia rediviva

I think this is their third flowering from seed sown in January 2009
I had seed from AGS and SRGC seed exchanges but it was from the same donor.  Many thanks to Mr & Mrs Fowler for collecting such fine seed which has given me plants that have survived my hit or miss cultivation for longer than any I've had before.

Congratulations, Roma, they are gorgeous !!