South African Plants

Our Australian climate is similar to South African’s. So like Australian native plants, South African plants generally grow well here. South African plants have many relatives amongst Australian natives. An example of this is Crinum Powlleii and Moorei (South African), and Crinum Flaccidum and Pedunculatum (Australian).

South African plants are a great source of autumn colour. The following plants flower during autumn: Belladonna; Velthemia; Haemanthus Albiflos (White ox tongue lily); Nerine; Valotta; Hypoxis Alba (early winter); Cyrtanthus (will surprise you by flowering randomly all seasons); and Crinum (early autumn). Most other varieties listed below flower during spring and summer.

This category of my plant collection is too varied to offer a complete summary of growing tips, but here is some general information on South African plants. Feel free to contact me for further information.

The following South African plants listed below are frost tender: Clivea, Velthemia, and Haemanthus Albiflos (White ox tongue lily). Note: the Haemanthus Coccineus (Red ox tongue lily) is frost hardy.

Summer dormant South African plants are generally drought hardy.

My Collection of South African Plants

Albus Rosea	Blue	Bressingham Blue	Bressingham White
Double Blue	Dutch Giant	Inky Tears	Lauries Inky
Mini Blue	Mini White	Sea Spray	White Tall

Albucca:

Altissma

Caradensis

Nelsonii

B

Babiana:

Babiana

Belladonna:

Pink

White

White then pink

White -pink lines

Brunsvigia:

Brunsvigia detail

Brunsvigia josephinae

Bulbinella:

Bulbinella cauda fellis	Bulbinella latifolia	Spp	Floribunda
Nuttans Var Turficosicola

C

Clivea:

Clivea Miniata

Clivea Nobilis

Crinum:

Crinum Moorei White

Crinum Powellii Pink

Cyrtanthus:

brachyscyphus	Pink	Salmon Red	Yellow
elatus Delicata	elatus Vallotta

D

Dierama:

Alba	dracomontanum	Portwine	Dierama Pulcherrima
Dierama Pumila

Dietes:

bicolour

grandiflora

iriodoides

Dipcadi:

viride

E

Eucomis:

Oakhurst	pole evansii	Marg's Pink	punctata Pink
Purple Leaf Giant	spp.	undulata	White
zambesiaca

F

Freesia:

sparrmannii

viridis

G

Gladioli:

Byzantinum	Coluillixrubrum	Papillo	Tristis
Tristis Yellow	Undulatis	White

Gloriosa:

Littonia modesta has been added to this genus.

modesta

superba

H

Hesperanthe:

Hesperanthe Bachmani

Hypoxis:

Hypoxis Alba

hemerocallidae

I

Ixia:

amethystina	Cerise	curta	dubia
Green Eye	Mauve Eye	Miss Watson	panticulata
White Pan	polystachya	rapunculoides

K

Knipofia:

Click here to download my printable Kniphofia growing tips

Blaze	Caulescens	Cobra	James Nottle
Lancer	Princess Beatrix	thomasonii	Winter Cheer

L

Lachenalia:

arbithnotiae	aurea	contaminata	Giant Aurea
gillettii	matthewsii	mutabilis	pallida
pendula	pot C	pulsatilla	pustulata
quadricolour	reflexa	unicolour	White

Littonia:

• See: Gloriosa

M

Moraea:

aristata x Villosa	aristata	atropunctata	bellendenii
bipartita	comptonii	debilis	elegans
flaccida	fugax	lewisiae	loubserii
lurida	polyanthos	ramosissima	reflexa
spathulata	villosa	villosa x aristata	tricuspidata
tripetala	vegeta papillonacae

N

Nerine:

Alba	Bowdenii	filofolius	Fothergill Major
Fothergill Minor	Masonorum	Rosea	Sarniensis

S

Sandersonia

Sandersonia

Sparaxis:

Lemon

Mandy

Red

Talbot

Spiloxene:

capensis Pink

capensis Yellow

capensis

orange Spp.

Sternbergia:

Sternbergia lutea

V

Velthemia:

Velthemia

W

Wurmbea:

Onixotis triquetra has been added to this genus.

triquetra

Z

Zantedeschia:

elliottiana

Cream

Green Goddess

rehmannii

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