Glad to Oregon got Gators out for the the LA series Tractors. They did have them last Year hadn't made them with the star pattern yet.

So much good information here. I am in SW Florida and the nighttime temps get into the 40’s enough during January and February that I think they get enough cool temps. I know there iis a hotel in Naples that has them as a mass planting and they bloom. My first year here Iost my best biggest Clivia to crown rot. Now I use a fungicide regularly. I have repotted all into an orchid mix of Leica, bark, charcoal for better drainage. I have discovered with care the plant can come back from crown rot because the roots are still healthy and a new crown is formed. It has actually taken two years so might not be worth it. They have tried to bloom but the stalks don’t grow above the crown and they start to rot so I have had to remove the blooms, and spray with fungicide to save the plant. I think I haven’t been fertilizing enough so I’ll do better and see what happens next year. They need so much more care here than they did in WA, but, after having them for forty years, I have to keep trying.

Thank you both! I'm hoping my bad back will LET me use them a lot this year. Just had another RF Ablation procedure done on it so I have no excuses. LOL

More to my story yesterday of needing quick oatmeal for my porridge ... after my chasing and buying it at the second store ... it didn't make it home. Tried to fit it into the two bags I was carrying, it didn't seem to fit, put it into a third bag. Sat alone for a while in shopping mall, doubt whether I'd have missed picking up that third bag. Don't remember whether it was in my hand when I left the bus in the village and started walking down the street to hitchhike, where my neighbour recognized me and pulled into a driveway just ahead of me and called to me. Did I leave that third bag in her car? If I did, I'll get it back - but I doubt it. After arrival home, I looked long and hard for that oatmeal - but it was not to be found. And there's background for another story - but that's for later, before I forget. Oh, and by the way, I carry a paper/card planning and reporting the ten pills of six kinds that I take daily ... and it disappeared during yesterday's adventure, as well, giving one a bit of a PITA! ole joyful