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Big Sale! Clivia 'Sir John Thouron', the famous yellow form of Bush Lily

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Original price was: $110.00.Current price is: $66.00.

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Brand : Unbranded
Common Name : Bush Lily
Genus : Clivia
Features : Evergreen, Flowering
Color : Yellow
Type : Houseplants

Only one larger plant left for this season! divisions are from two years ago from a single mother plant. The famous yellow variety, ‘Sir John Thouron’ that started the yellow clivia craze! Large blooming size division. The blooms shown are from March 2024. The plant are not in bloom now but this is the best time to acquire and get them settled into your garden or house for the rest of the summer to grow! The division is well established and heavily rooted. Shipped bare root. I purchased my original plant from Clivia enthusiast Mike Riska sometimes in the mid 1990’s. Chicago Botanic Garden: “The cultivar ‘Sir John Thouron’ is valued for its showy, pale yellow flowers that form a ball-shaped umbrella well above its dark-green leaves. The flowers are small versions of amaryllis blossoms, clustered atop a thick, fleshy stalk. It was only thirty-four years ago [circa 1990?] that White Flower Farms offered 36 plants for $950 each; all were sold out to a movie star, a fashion designer, and several collectors. (The cost has dropped since then.)” Univ. of Delaware (my alma mater) “Descending from a yellow clivia brought from Britain to Philadelphia by the late Scotsman Sir John Thouron over 60 years ago, this cultivar remains at the top of the class in yellow clivias…” Longwood Gardens (historical notes)”Longwood’s breeding project began by crossing a clivia with small yellow flowers and poor plant habit with an orange-flowered plant that had exceptionally large flowers. Both of these crosses resulted in plants with large yellow flowers, but they were floppy and not significantly better than the original yellow-flowered parent. Then Longwood received a yellow-flowered clivia that had an upright formal habit with flowers held above the foliage. We have since named this cultivar ‘Sir John Thouron’ after the man who donated the plants. We quickly made crosses between the best yellow seedlings from the F2 and backcross populations mentioned above and Clivia ‘Sir John Thouron’. Many of the progeny had outstanding flower size, number, and form, as well as excellent plant habit.

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