Streptocarpus Polka-Dot Purple

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Cape Primroses are nature-made houseplants for European and American climates, and what’s more, they are flowering houseplants that produce eye-popping little blooms for from six months to nearly the whole year . ‘Harlequin Delft’ Sprinkle the microscopicseeds thinly onto finely sieved, slightly damp seed compost. Leave them uncovered From there, Lawrence was promoted into the busy world of garden supervision and student training when he became Garden Superintendent in 1932, where he became occupied with developing the famous John Innes composts. These temperature-sensitive plants will do best at daytime temperatures hovering around 21°C and nighttime ones of around 15°C.

Streptocarpus and I have an on/off love affair. I buy them from the garden centre looking fresh and full of promise; sometimes they stay that way until the fatal day when I give them a drop more water than they would like. Then, taking no account of the months, occasionally years of TLC I have bestowed upon them, they go terminally limp and refuse to recover. Whole Leaf Cuttings(Easy) - Instead of cutting the leaf into several sections (see image above), you can even keep it whole (like the image above) by placing the wound-end in a small glass of water to root. Once the roots are 2cm in length (1 inch), pot it up into a 7cm plastic pot with 'Houseplant' labelled potting mix. Whilst the leaf is rooting in the soil, be sure to cut the leaf in half horizontally, so that the total length of is reduced by half. Don't cut along the midrib. Keep the potted leaf in a transparent bag with a few holes and provide a indirect location with regular soil moisture. Once the third baby leaf emerges, you can remove the bag and treat as a mature specimen. Cut across the leaf at 2in (5cm) intervals to give several sections; leaves can also be cut in half along the mid-ribOther Species: There are 155 recognised species of Streptocarpus, with the first that was sent to Kew Gardens from South Africa being Streptocarpus rexii.

In spring and summer, you may feed the plants about every three weeks with a houseplant liquid fertiliser. ‘Hope’ There will be several to many such plantlets – after they develop two sets of leaves they will need to be divided and potted on. Her assistant Miss V. C. Sturgess helped bridge the gap left by her departure but WWII effectively closed the department down when Price and Sturgess transferred to war service in 1941. Neither returned to the institute after the war and it was another decade before biochemical work on plant pigments resumed. As a consequence they are so widely available that you should be able to find several varieties at your local garden centre or nursery. ‘Purple Panda’ Water from either above or below when the compost becomes dry on the surface and to a depth of 1cm.

Seeds are very small – sow them in spring or summer by simply scattering them on top of the soil, either in a seed tray or pot.