Lewisias-2011

[Toole]

Lewisia rediviva minor enjoying the heat of the last few days .

Cheers Dave.

[deesen]

Very nice Dave. I don't find rediviva at all easy.

[Hoy]

Very nice Dave. I don't find rediviva at all easy.

Yes, very nice! I have for a while, given up growing other lewisias than the common 13 a dozen types you get at the supermarked

[Weiser]

Dave
Great to see you having such a good show of blossoms. Lewisia rediviva minor is the common one on the dry slopes around Reno.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Well done Dave !  Looks splendid !

[Toole]

Thanks all.

Very nice Dave. I don't find rediviva at all easy.

Neither do i David .

As i don't have any more room in my covered frames the pots are left outside in various positions all year round with the result many don't reappear after their dormant period.
A local friend has good success growing L.rediviva in raised sand beds .

I think you say it all John with your comment about being "common on the dry slopes around Reno"......

Lewisia rediviva x L.cotyledon is far more accommodating in my climate.

Oops --just seen there is a separate thread for L. rediviva   ---one of the Moderators might like to move my postings .....

Cheers Dave

[Doreen]

Greetings Dave! Just joined the forum yesterday, so excuse me whilst I do a bit of testing ... testing ... testing to upload my Lewisia rediviva pic. It grows very well for me in pots, loves the hot and dry up here, but I haven't managed to keep it going out in the garden so far. But with a few more seedlings coming along, I might have another go - I'm aiming for a vista to match David S's magical video from the Okanagan!

I'm collecting seeds at the moment so if anyone wants any - (Fermi?)

[Tim Ingram]

That is a glorious plant Doreen! Peter Korn showed a picture of L. tweedyii growing outside on a sand bed in Sweden which amazed me, so maybe rediviva would do but surely it would need summer cover like a choice bulb?

[Booker]

Wow Doreen, even John Forrest would be proud of that beauty!
I have a pleasing number of small plants in leaf under glass at the moment - I hope they will perform like yours over the years to come.  Do you feed to build them up?

[deesen]

Greetings Dave! Just joined the forum yesterday, so excuse me whilst I do a bit of testing ... testing ... testing to upload my Lewisia rediviva pic. It grows very well for me in pots, loves the hot and dry up here, but I haven't managed to keep it going out in the garden so far. But with a few more seedlings coming along, I might have another go - I'm aiming for a vista to match David S's magical video from the Okanagan!

I'm collecting seeds at the moment so if anyone wants any - (Fermi?)

WOW

[Doreen]

Tim: This photo is actually a year old - the plant has even more flowers on this year but for some reason, in succession rather than all at once so it didn't make such an eye-catching picture. I don't have a greenhouse, no frames even, so everything has to take its chance outside, maybe with a length of shade netting thrown over it when the temperature gets to 30+. Don't have much success with tweedyi, but I keep on trying!

Cliff: Very gritty compost, and very little food, maybe a splash of Miracle-Gro once in a while. I think I have the climate to thank for this plant - hot dry summers and cold dry winters, a bit different from Lancashire (and Huddersfield!)

 

[deesen]

..... and Devon too

[RickR]

I too, am admiring with envy you Lewisia rediviva, Doreen. 

I assumed those were more flower buds in the photo, but am I wrong?

I am not sure I could grow that here, as it would still get a zone 4 winter.  But there were still Lewisia rediviva seed in the NARGS second round, so I ordered.  Some other(s) got them before me, though. So the experiment will wait.

[Lori S.]

I don't think a zone 4 winter should really be a problem for it, Rick.  It's native to southern Alberta and BC.  I have grown it here, also, in a trough... can't claim I did that very well, though, as it only lasted a small number of years.  I would assume it was more unsuitable conditions than a lack of cold hardiness that did it in.

[David Sellars]

surely it would need summer cover like a choice bulb?

Dave and Doreen: Thanks for the lovely photos of L. rediviva in flower from New Zealand.  I took a photo today of what the plant currently looks like in the Northern Hemisphere.  We grow them outside with no cover in a very well drained sunny bed with no overhead watering when they are dormant in the summer. They seem to do best in a sand bed and this year I am experimenting with slow release fertilizer applied in the Fall to see if it helps in building the huge taproot. The really nice thing about growing this species is that it can take whatever winter weather is thrown at it from torrential rain to freezing cold.