How to Pick The Right Summer Flower Bulb for You - How to pick cyrtanthus mackenii bulbs
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Hi this is Yolanda Vanveen on behalf of Expert Village. Cyrthanthus Mackenii is a beautiful
flower from that blooms every summer from South Africa. It grows on the mountainside
and it is a beautiful plant in the iris family kind of like a crocosmia that has big yellow
flowers on both sides of the stalk. They grow one to two feet fall and they make a great
cut flower and they have a great fragrance. I love them because they are really exotic
and no one else has them here in America and they are really hard to find. They are just
a small bulb like an amaryllis bulb but more like a crocosmia bulb. They will just come
up with some greenery but not a whole lot little sword type leaves and the blooms will
come up yellow and go on both sides of the plants. They are easy to grow. I put usually
about two or three in the pot or maybe even one just to show case it and you can put other
bulbs in with it as well. It is one of the few South African plants that I am not sure
if it will make it over the cold winter. Whether it is in the pot or the ground I usually bring
it in for the winter. Just throw it in the greenhouse and keep it dry and just bring
it back out in the spring and enjoy it for many years to come. The next summer plant
we will talk about is tritonia.
