1 x 9cm pot 511860-1 | £14.95 |
Delivery late May
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When in stock, please allow up to 4-6 weeks for despatch. For fruit & veg bare roots/crowns or potatoes, please allow up to 2 weeks for despatch.
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It’s hard to find a white alstroe which doesn’t look a bit supermarket-y once picked, but we loved this one with green markings in the garden and vase.
Genus | Alstroemeria |
Group/Species | x hybrida |
Variety | Blushing Bride |
Type | Tender Perennial |
Common Name | Peruvian Lily |
Border Position | Cutting Garden |
Soil Type | Broad Tolerance |
Site | Full Sun |
Moisture | Well-drained |
Height | 60cm (24in) |
Spacing | 60cm (24in) |
Sowing, Seeds, Planting | Plant alstroemerias in a sheltered site, in part shade or full sun, any time between May and August (once the frosts are over). Add plenty of grit to the planting hole, plus plenty of organic matter and sprinkle mycorrhizal fungi (Rootgrow) into the base of the planting hole. Water well after planting. If you have a greenhouse it is well worth growing alstromeria inside too. Pot them up into 5L pots and keep frost free. Feed and water well once they start to shoot in spring and they should give you an almost continual flower harvest. Propagate by division in April. The roots are fragile and need to be lifted and divided with care and replanted immediately. |
Care Tips | Add a slow-release fertiliser in the spring and water regularly in dry weather. Stake plants so they don't collapse in the wind or rain, and keep picking the flowers - the best way is to pull them rather than cutting. Mulch deeply for the first couple of winters and if you live in a cooler part of the country. Hardy with a mulch once established. Handle with gloves, so that the sap does not cause irritation. |
Flowering | June - September |
Vase Life | Arrange with a drop of bleach in their flower water, and with new water every 4-5 days they should last 3 weeks in a vase. |
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Plant Delivery - When in stock, please allow up to 4-6 weeks for despatch. For fruit & veg bare roots/crowns or potatoes, please allow up to 2 weeks for despatch.
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Alstroemeria 'Blushing Bride' reviews
Reviewed 6th February 2021 by Wendy The plant never arrived .. |