{"id":1478,"date":"2014-02-22T00:54:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T07:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2014-02-15T03:20:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T10:20:25","slug":"alstromeria-quick-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alstromeria-quick-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Alstroemeria &#8211; Quick Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4549966143\/\" title=\"Alstroemeria \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4059\/4549966143_fd26d403df.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Alstroemeria\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alstroemeria or Peruvian Lilies make great flowers for picking and are long lasting in a vase. When established they are easy to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Get your plants from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=alstroemeria\">Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a> who supply plants and seeds. The seeds need patience and some skill.<\/p>\n<h3>Culture of Alstroemeria<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Plenty of organic matter and regular watering\u00c2\u00a0 helps Alstroemeria thrive.<\/li>\n<li>Alstromeria\u00c2\u00a0like a sheltered site in sun or partial shade. They can form good solid clumps and some varieties self seed.<\/li>\n<li>Taller\u00c2\u00a03 feet plus Alstroemeria need staking or they may be knocked down by rain or wind. Ligtu hybrids should be self supporting.<\/li>\n<li>Apollo varieties cope well with frost and flower in three or four separate flushes.<\/li>\n<li>Deadhead regularly by pulling out the flowering stem.<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3819584343\/\" title=\"Alstromeria by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2423\/3819584343_876c2de785.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Alstromeria\"><\/a><!--more--><!--more--><\/p>\n<li>Scatter a slow release fertilizer in spring<\/li>\n<li>When picking for indoors pull the whole stem from near the base. They can last 3 weeks in a vase.<\/li>\n<li>Great for borders and containers withgood drainage. <\/li>\n<li> Plant at a depth of 3cm. <\/li>\n<li>Mulch for the first 2 years. In frost prone areas maintain a dry mulch in winter. <\/li>\n<li>If the plant gets too hot in the summer they may stop flowering and put their effort to producing more tuberous roots. <\/li>\n<li>Propagate established clumps by division in early spring or autumn. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Varieties<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0Taller varieties include\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Apollo\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0(AGM)\u00c2\u00a0 white with a yellow speckled throat,\u00c2\u00a0 <strong>Friendship<\/strong> (AGM) pale yellow and later\u00c2\u00a0flowering, <strong>Prince Alice<\/strong> has rich pink flowers and <strong>Perfect Blue<\/strong> is lavender coloured<\/li>\n<li>Medium growers inclue <strong>Blushing Bride<\/strong> white with a pink blush, <strong>Adonis <\/strong>deep pink, <strong>Freedom<\/strong> rose with red throat patterns and the orange <strong>Princess Sophia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A smaller fragrant variety\u00c2\u00a0has been launched by Thomposn Morgan called <strong>Sweet Laura<\/strong> see below<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1481 aligncenter\" title=\"alstroemeria-sweet-laura\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/alstromeria-sweet-laura.jpg\" alt=\"alstromeria-sweet-laura\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/alstromeria-sweet-laura.jpg 240w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/alstromeria-sweet-laura-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing Alstromeria can be easy and rewarding. Long short and intermediate varieties in many colours create grand cut flowers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,233],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-growing-easy-plants","tag-cut-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}