nerines

[tilts]

what wonderful colour they make, i am sure that they were soldiers in their previous lives! 'cept for the falling down one!!!

[tilts]

[star]

I love nerines, they are really gorgeous ;)

[Carol]

Beautiful flowers.  I was giving a few pots of nerines to plant up but they didn't survive the transplanting.  May try again, they are lovely.

[lindyloo]

Hello to all, I'm new!

Nerines - I've got a pot of these (there's not as many flowers and they look a bigger plant (but that could just be my hopeful perspective) - do they need to be 'brought in' for the winter?
thanking you!

[Grandma]

Oooh so beautiful!  :)

Tried countless times to grow them but without success. What's your secret, Tilts? xxx

[Old bird]

Hi

The nerine stay out all year.  If you watch their heads when the flowers are dying back you can pick up the seed berries which generally all set and become young plantlets (although they don't generally flower in first year)

I have never had any trouble with them - they grow like weeds down here!  We are south west close to sea - so maybe it is a temperature thing?!

Old Bird

[Froglegs]

Hello to all, I'm new!

Nerines - I've got a pot of these (there's not as many flowers and they look a bigger plant (but that could just be my hopeful perspective) - do they need to be 'brought in' for the winter?
thanking you!

Hi lindyloo,
                 i think i would keep them frost free just to be on the safe side. :-\

[nippie]

what wonderful colour they make, i am sure that they were soldiers in their previous lives! 'cept for the falling down one!!!

Even soldiers faint!!!

I have found that the secret with Narines is to not plant then too deep.
I dug some out because they wouldn't flower. Then I never got around to getting rid of them and they sat on the surface in a corner. They flowered beautifully there ;D
So when I did plant them I planted them with at least half of the "bulbs" (are they bulbs, corms or what) above the ground.
I would have said they were hardy, but like Big Bird I am on the south west coast.

[manicscousers]

ours get eaten, we're on cold, wet clay at home, we have big slugs and snails  :( ;D

[flowerlady]

Gosh ... what have I done to mine ??? all I have is a pot full of green leaves !!!  ???

[quizzical1]

For the third or fourth year running, mine produced leaves in the spring, and then just disappeared, probably not to be seen until spring next year.
They are planted in a large, not too deep planter, with my hostas, and stay out all year round.