Its clusters of orange or red trumpet-shaped flowers make clivia (Clivia spp.) a a wonderful house plant. It’s also a flowering elegance outside in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant-hardiness zones 9 through 11. Commonly called kaffir lily, fireplace lily, St. John’s lily and bush lily, clivia wants to be watered, split and fertilized to prosper. Don’t neglect to prune a clivia also–it aids the plant remain tidy as well as a manageable dimensions.

Clivia flowers after they die-back, reducing off the flowers in the base of the stems. Removing spent flowers cleans the plant up. It also aids power is conserved by the plant because it stops them. Then, its power can be used by the clivia for flowering and more development.

Prune broken, brown or yellowing stems or leaves. It is possible to do this any period of the yr. If your leaf is partly broken, eliminate the whole leaf, clipping off it in the bottom close to the stem. To get a stem that is broken, clip again just above a leaf.

Cut back clivia to sustain a dimension that is preferred. Do this. Cut stems into a set of the parent branch or leaves where they originate. It’s most useful to prune lightly each year as an alternative to prune hard every couple of years. Don’t remove over one-third of a clivia in any given year.