Eucomis bicolor

A wonderful late summer flowering bulb which has been hardy in the garden here for several years now.  I showed the developing flower bud on 28th July and now they are in full flower.  On that occasion Maurice1948 commented thus:

"This plant was the means of my making a horticultural breakthrough many years ago, probably as many as 30. I cut the top off a fading flower and put it in a propagator, as it reminded me of rooting a real pineapple top when I was a kid. 

To my surprise, not only did it root, but produced a circle of bulblets all of which developed into bulbs and grew on fast. I then discovered that if I cut a leaf into horizontal sections and inserted them upright into the propagator then a row of bulblets formed across the cut too.

In a couple of years my single Eucomis bulb had become fifty!"


I feel an experiment coming on ....

A garage clearing day today with Moira, one of Jacinta's recorder friends who came all the way from Ipswich to help out :-)