Friday, September 16, 2016

Vico Yellow

Grown by tissue culture:
Sir Peter Smithers --- Dr S Hirao ----Yoshikazu Nakamura

Vico Yellow

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

PLANTMARKET AND CLIVIA SHOW 2016

The Clivia forum is having their 5th annual plant market in Centurion with clivia and orchids being the main attraction. Various top breeders of clivia in south Africa will be at the plant market. Plants will be on sale and on show varying from garden clivia’s to collector’s plants. A variety of other plants and garden goodies will be on sale. Indigenous bulbs, daylilies, irises, pots and crockery, garden ornaments, tillandsias, bonsai, cactus and succulents, Glass ornaments, Orchids, soil enhancers and feeding materials, nursery products, herb sellers, zygocactus, clematis and various other garden plants and products will be on sale. Various food and beverages will be available at the venue. Free seeds will be given away while stocks last.

Venue: Laerskool Rooihuiskraal
c/o Panorama and Maraboe
Rooihuiskraal
Centurion.

Entrance: Free to all

Date and Time: 27 August 8:00 to 17:00
                            28 August 8:30 to 16:00

Contact: Martin 0839375216
                 Eddie 0784897801

Thursday, June 30, 2016

New clivia book hitting the shelves soon.....


‘Basic Genetics for Clivia Breeders' 

by Professor Johan Spies

Table of contents:
1 Clivia breeding 1
2 Mendelian inheritance 7
3 Deviations from Mendelian inheritance 24
4 Testing hypothesis 43
5 Polygenic inheritance 55
6 Maternal inheritance 64
7 Polyploidy in Clivia 71
8 Genes in populations 80
9 Developing a Clivia breeding programme 87
Glossary 95
Suggested further reading 101