Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Cilivia, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
OK! OK!
Holly directed me to this Thread....

I appreciate all your comments--but i am still just a novice on this plant as well....
Background----
My friend, Helen, asked me in 2008 if i would like to have a Clivia. I had heard of this plant but had never seen one.
I said: "Sure!"....I was expecting a 6" pot or something on that order....and then she came--lugging this 40lb. plant in ONLY a 10" or 12" pot. HUGE!
She said it had been her mother's--and she had 2 of them. It was at least 30yrs. old and, as for the time she had owned it--it had never been fertilized and that she seldom watered it.
In the winter, she kept it in a sun room and totally ignored it.

When I received it--it was in full bloom and it's roots were all over the surface and looping up.

here is my gift.