Planting depth & Watsonia indentification

Chad Schroter Chad.Schroter@wdc.com
Thu, 21 Nov 2019 09:31:45 PST
Matt,
	From the pictures, these look identical to ones, which I grow as well.  I have had issues with them not blooming well if they get too crowded and are not getting enough sun. This is probably why you got "new" colors. 
I have never seen any seedlings from these in 20+ years so I think you could rule that out.  I believe these to be W pyramidata..

The ones in the Pictures,  which you call pink, I call red :)   I also have some true lighter pinks. My experience is that the red is the least vigorous...
There is a Lavender Pink (almost purple) var which is perhaps a true species as well - W. borbonica.

Mine bloom in Late Spring and are summer dormant.

There is one I have which is evergreen, comparatively narrow leaves and has smaller true red flowers which blooms in late summer.

Regards,
Chad

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Well fortunately it's not bulbifera, since it doesn't produce bulbils on the stems. It has to be a species that can produce pink, white and orange flowers, as I said, I've had them for many years and it was only the last two years that I got anything but the pink flowers. The white and orange flowers showed up in the same clumps where the pinks were growing.

I've sent the photos to David Pilling as he offered to get them posted to the list.


On Nov 20, 2019, at 5:17 PM, Chad Schroter <Chad.Schroter@wdc.com> wrote:

> Welcome,
>       There are many hybrids out there, but I believe the tall pink/orange forms are based on Watsonia meriana and the white ones are W. pyramidalis or borbonica.       W. meriana bulbifera can be a weed and is the one which makes stem bulbils.
>

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