{"id":32392,"date":"2012-08-13T15:22:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T19:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=32392"},"modified":"2012-08-13T15:22:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T19:22:16","slug":"something-different-in-an-alstroemeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=32392","title":{"rendered":"something different in an alstroemeria"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Alstromeria isabellana<\/a> that I brought home from Far Reaches Farm<\/a> in Port Townsend, Washington, opened its first bloom in my garden in Southern California a couple days ago. Sean Hogan had pointed it out to me in a display garden at his wonderful nursery Cistus<\/a> on Sauvie Island outside Portland, Oregon.
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From the Pacific Bulb Society website<\/a>: “A lovely species with a distribution from eastern\/southern Brazil to northeastern Argentina. It has striking convergence in flower morphology with many Central\/South American plants like Phaedranassa<\/a> and Fuchsia elegans…Seeds planted in the fall sprouted in February. Plants go dormant in winter and return in spring<\/em>.”
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\nI’m feeling really optimistic about this one. Dancing Oaks Nursery’s<\/a> description is very reassuring: “Exquisite pendulous flowers of orange, green and black on 2-3′ tall<\/strong> stems. Stiff<\/strong> narrow gray blue leaves. Slowly<\/strong> creates a colony<\/em>.” <\/p>\n

The emphasis on stiff leaves, medium height, and a slow-growing nature is mine, attributes I’m hoping will hold true in my zone 10 garden. My last encounter with an alstromeria, ‘The Third Harmonic,’ was a tempestuous, drama-laden affair that ended unhappily. (As unhappy as these encounters can end, as in complete eradication.) I wrote about ‘The Third Harmonic’ here<\/a> and here<\/a>. It’s way too soon to tell, but this A. isabellana may just be the easy-going, well-mannered alstroemeria I’ve been looking for. And who knew an alstroemeria could possess such grace, character, and that rarest of attributes often lacking in hybrids, subtlety? <\/p>\n

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