Ixia Exotic Flower Bulbs

Series Summary

Landscaping your front or back yard doesn't have to be a professional job. Home gardens provide a tranquil area for reflection and relaxation. Tending and enjoying a garden can lower blood pressure, ease anxiety, and provide diversion in which to ponder various thoughts that have been lingering in your subconscious. Even if you don't have much yard space, planting a small corner garden is a simple task you could complete in just an afternoon.

In this free video series, our expert will teach you about planting and growing South African flower bulbs. These beautiful, exotic flowers make the perfect addition to any home garden or indoor flower pot. You will learn all about picking, planting and growing ixia, tritonia, gladiolus maurielae and amaryllis belladonna flower bulbs. You will also learn about nerine, crocosmia and callalies. If you are interested in growing exotic flower bulbs, South African flowers are a great place to get started.

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Yolanda Vanveen of vanveenbulbs.com. In this series we're going to learn all about South African flower bulbs. My favorite bulbs in the whole entire universe these are lots of variety and they do really well in gardens all over the world. The first South African bulb we're going to talk about is Ixia, it's a beautiful plant from South Africa that is in the iris family so it grows a lot like an Iris. It likes sun or part shade and it blooms in the summer time. It's a beautiful plant it looks a lot like a coral bell it doesn't like the shape like coral bells do but it has one long stem with many blooms on it that look like little bells. So the blooms themselves last a long time I get over a month on them and I just love them. Ixia bulbs are really tiny they are like a little Iris and so just like a little Hershey's kiss candy, so you plant them about 3" deep in sun or part shade. The trick is that they like to be crowded so put like 3 or 5, 6, 12 in one group and they will be a lot happier than one by itself. Cause they are social like people are and they love to be in groups. Most years Ixia will winter over in the northwest but if we have a really hard winter or an ice storm sometime you'll lose them. So either put them around in a sunny spot or in a raise bed and risk it or you can just put them in a pot or dig them up for the winter, put them in the garage and put them back out in the spring. Either way they are a good tradition to your garden, a great South African plant."