Achimenes [hot water plant]

Has anyone got any of these that I could have a few corms of, please?
I haven't grown any for ages.

 

Thank you MF!

 

I've got some as well, but i usually dry the pots off and leave them through the winter, then take out the tubers in the spring,
I only have a red one these days.
What colours are yours MF?

 

Thats right MF, I did have a purple, but one year it didn't have any tubers, so it died out.
We need to resurrect this thread in the early spring, maybe we can both pass some on to Liz.
I think the specialist growers have some really interesting colours, its an old fashioned plant thats a bit neglected these days.

 

It's a coincidence you started talking about these now as my Mum gave me a purple one on saturday as a present. I'd never seen one before until then.

 

It's also known as a friendship plant because people pass them on [I think several plants have this name though].

 

Think I posted this one before in another thread but here it is anyway.

 

Yes, Pete - when I asked about them, you posted the photo. y ones are purple, and flowering their socks off!!! They're in the thread about a busy north facing window, if anyone wants to see them. I got them as cuttings - so you're welcome to some cuttings from me if you want them Liz - when they've stopped flowering, that is! :D Just let me know and I'll take some at a suitable moment....

 

Didn't know you could grow them from cuttings Dendy, do you water them year round and grow as an evergreen then?

 

I guess so. I was given some by one of the old ladies I do charity work for, and she said just to keep them watered well, and they've flowered beautifully!! I've only had them a couple of months, and they've grown very fast.

 

Has anyone got one or two of the following for sale;

Geranium cuttings/ plants (Small) Old fashioned Red ones

Michaelmas daisy plants (Small)Old fashioned purple ones

Thank you