THE OBJECTIVES OF THE CLIVIA SOCIETY 1. To coordinate the interests, activities and objectives of constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; 2. To participate in nature conservation activities in relation to the protection and conservation of the genus Clivia in its natural habitat, to promote the genus Clivia and in that context also to promote the observation of conservation laws and practices; 3. To promote the cultivation, conservation and improvement of the genus Clivia by 3.1 the exchange and mutual dissemination of information amongst constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; 3.2 where possible, the mutual exchange of plants, seed and pollen amongst constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; and 3.3 the mutual distribution of specialized knowledge and expertise amongst constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; 4. To promote the progress of and increase in knowledge of the genus Clivia and to advance it by enabling research to be done and by the accumulation of data and dissemination thereof amongst constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; 5. To promote interest in and knowledge of the genus Clivia amongst the general public; and 6. To do all such things as may be necessary and appropriate for the promotion of the above mentioned objectives.

CLIVIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

▼ CHAIRMAN Chris Vlok PO Box 99583, Garsfontein 0060 Tel H +27 12 998 5942 e-mail: [email protected] ▼ VICE-CHAIRMAN John van der Linde 1 Wheelan Str., Newlands, 7700 Tel & Fax +27 21 671 4535 e-mail: [email protected] ▼ SECRETARY Lena van der Merwe PO Box 74868, Lynnwood Ridge, 0040 Tel & Fax +27 12804 8892 e-mail: [email protected] ▼ TREASURER Bossie de Kock PO Box 38539, Garsfontein, 0042 Tel +27 12 998 3620 e-mail: [email protected] ▼ OFFICE BEARER Ken Smith 593 Hawkesbury Rd., Winmalee, NSW 2777, Tel +61 2 47543287 Australia, e-mail: [email protected]

REPRESENTATIVES OF CONSTITUENT CLIVIA CLUBS ▼ Cape Claude Felbert, Felicity Weeden, Coen Calitz ▼ Eastern Province Andre Calitz and Gideon Botha ▼ Northern Lena van der Merwe, Peter Lambert, Bossie de Kock ▼ KwaZulu-Natal Sean Chubb ▼ Free State Hennie van der Mescht ▼ Garden Route Gerrie Brits ▼ Joburg Glynn Middlewick CLIVIA NEWS ▼ VOLUME 15 NUMBER 1 ▼ JANUARY - MARCH 2006 Table of Contents

▼ CLIVIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE- AND CONSTITUENT MEMBERS Inner Front Cover ▼ EDITORIAL - Roger Fisher 2 Errata 2 ▼ CORRESPONDENCE 3 ▼ NAMES AND THE GENUS Clivia E P Zimmerman - Marje Howard-Jones 4 Coromandel - Roger Fisher 4 ▼ STORIES BEHIND THE COVERS Cover photo - Clivia nobilis 'Pearl of the Cape" - Welland Cowley 7 Back cover - Stamp collection - Sakkie Nel 1 ▼ PEOPLE BEHIND THE PLANTS - Welland Cowley 8 ▼ PERSONALITY PARADE Pat Gore - Tino Ferero 9 t CLIVIA HABITATS Pale forms of Clivia nobilis - Welland Cowley 10 ▼ CLIVIA EXCURSIONS New Zealand in October 2005... - John van der Linde 12 ▼ GROWERS AND BREEDERS NOTES The importance of the flower pedicels in selective breeding of variegated Clivia - John van der Linde 14 ▼ CLIVIA 2006 CONFERENCE 15 4th International Clivia Conference 16 Events & Activities 17 Clivia on postage stamps - Sakkie Nel 18 ▼ ADVERTISEMENTS 19 ▼ LATE NEWS - Chris Vlok 20 ▼ CLIVI-ARTA The Noble Lady Clive, Cape and Pearls - Helen Sanders 20 ▼ REPRESENTATIVES OF CLUBS & ENTHUSIASTS CONTACT DETAILS Inner Back Cover e're in the solar equinox. That means another newsletter. After the bumper Xmas issue there is a dearth of material. Old stalwarts of the clubs have however ensured that we have W content for this issue. My thanks to Tino Ferero, Welland Cowley and John van der Linde for their contributions. I appeal to all of you out there - please keep me posted with information. I know there is the web-based interest group but many of the members are not web-active and this is their window on the Clivia world. The Newsletter is a repository of the Society's historiography. What is not recorded is lost to posterity. I have had the privilege of meeting with the conference committee and from a brief encounter see that this promises to be an occasion that should not be missed. I've also had the pleasure of meeting with Gill Condy of SANBI who is the botanical artist responsible for the set of six stamps depicting all the species that will be issued with the advent of the conference on 6 September 2006. So there is an opportunity to send off a unique postal item from the conference to those back home. The botanical artists will also be mounting an exhibition of their works for sale to coincide with the conference. The world of clivias has added a new dimension to my range of interests and given cause for some interesting travel ventures. I have also done a fair distance of traveling by car and relate some of my rambles. In order to further bolster content I've trawled the net for information regarding names associated with clivias. Then this issue takes on a new look, thanks to the efforts of Freda van Wyk. It is intended to keep the background colour of the cover a constant shade of green in order to give the newsletter an identity, the Clivia green book. I'd be interested to have your views. We are well into the year, the 2006 Conference is around the corner, and there is a newsletter to be done between then and now. Let me get down to it. In the meanwhile enjoy this one. Clivia salutations. ▼ Roger Fisher

ERRATA: I stated that Auriol Batten was member of the Eastern Province Club (CSNL Vol 14 No 3 p 5). I am informed by Willie le Roux (outgoing Chairperson) that, regretfully, she is not. It was stated in the Garden route Clivia Club Show Report (CSNL Vol 14 No 4 p 27) that Andre Calitz of the PE Clivia Club received six prizes. This should read 'seven prizes'.

The Clivia Society has learnt with regret of the death of David Conway. He was friend to many of the membership and introduced to the Clivia circles through Koopowitz's book 'Clivias'. May his memory live long through his plants. Our condolences to family and friends. Dear Editor, Can overseas members form local interest groups or clubs that are affiliated with the Clivia Towards the end of October 2005, my husband Society? What is the difference between an Dup, came to me and said: Oumi, ons gaan die huis verkoop en koop waar dit koeler is sodat interest group and a club? What are the poten­ tial benefits or issues that need to be considered ons die clivias mooi kan sien blom - ek wil hulle before forming an overseas interest group or sien blom soos Roly Strachan s'n. (We are going club? ▼ to sell the house and buy a house in a cooler climate so that the clivias can flower profusely - Regards like Roly Strachan's - I want to see them Col Wood flower). Lower Blue Mountains, Sydney, Australia Then Dup died unexpectedly. And I was left [email protected] with a lot of decisions to make - amongst them what to do with the clivias when I relocate. The Chairman, Chris Vlok, has intimated that he The thought of taking all those plants with me would be happy to have these questions seemed very daunting - still does. debated by representatives of different Clivia One morning early, after a sleepless and rain organisations during the Clivia 2006 Confe­ filled night, I entered the Clivia house and there, rence - Editor. flowering for the first time with raindrops clinging to it, and peeping at me cheekily it sat Hello All on a short scape. The flower had a yellow throat with white tepals, only every second tepal My term as Chairman of the EP Clivia Club will sporting a smudge of orange. come to an end on 4th February 2006 and I would like to take this opportunity to thank So there seemed to lay my answer - it was as if you and your members for the friendship, Dup was telling me to take my clivias with me kindness and hospitality I enjoyed since 2000 wherever I decided to move to, and together we when I became involved in Clivia activities. I was shall see them flower. a real "greenie" but a few Clivia fundis took me P.S. The scape on this particular plant eventually under their wings and shared their experience grew long and the flowers on the pedicel that and knowledge with me. I believe that all Clivia opened then were no different than that of the Enthusiasts throughout the world are part and first flower. Very little orange on an almost parcel of a large family supporting one another white flower. ▼ and I thank you for the wonderful support Jennifer du Plessis. extended to me over this period. I am rich in Clivia friends and will always treasure your PO Box 803, Umtentweni 4235 friendship. February 2000 I am not disappearing completely from the Jennifer, our condolences on your loss, but scene as I will be carrying on with this wonder­ we're pleased that Dup's clivias still bring you ful hobby and will of course still have the solace - although there remains the problem of occasional chat with my friends. space. We wish you well with your future. Cynthia will also be finishing up as Secretary of Editor our Club and extending her appreciation for all the support she received.

Dear Sirs We wish one and all a very healthy 2006. ▼ Could the Clivia Society please clarify which Regards South African and overseas Clivia clubs are affiliated with the Clivia Society? How does the Willie & Cynthia Le Roux Clivia Society operate as a world-wide society? Tel: 041-360 3480 German missionary connections in South Africa E.P. Zimmerman and their connections with the genus Clivia. Any information would be welcome - Editor] Marje Howard-Jones

on and grandson of German nurserymen, E. P. Zimmerman, arrived in 1922 bringing Coromandel S Clivia seeds obtained by his grandfather from the conservatory of Lady Clive, duchess of Roger Fisher Northumberland. He traced his unusual legacy to The name 'Coromandel' is one that keeps missionary tales of "pools of gold growing in the cropping up in these columns. shade of cork trees on the banks of the Fish River in South Africa," reports that had sent his What is the Coromandel strain? grandfather to London for a closer look at the In about 2002 I visited the Coromandel Estate exotic plants. It was then that the precious seeds in Mpumalanga Province located off the Wit- came into the Zimmerman family's possession. klip road that links the Lydenburg - Dullstroom Immigrating to the United States in 1907, E. P. road to the Lydenburg - Bambi road. This was in Zimmerman spent fifteen years in search of the my capacity as pro bono advisor to the right place to plant and develop new strains of Mpumalanga Heritage Agency Office. At the clivias. Once settled in Carlsbad, it took him time the future of the estate - created as a sixteen more years of hybridizing through four magnificently landscaped model farm by plant generations to achieve his goal. Nursery­ Sidney Press, founder of Edgars - lay in the men and plant enthusiasts sought out his long balance, since it was to come up for auction. greenhouses to marvel at his collection of over On that visit I spotted the Clivia beds between 3,500 plants whose colors ranged from white the open ended courtyards of high-walled to pastel shades of yellow, orange and gold. It ashlar. The plants bore full umbels of fat was not uncommon for a single flower spike to fruit and looked extremely healthy, although hold as many as thirty blossoms. Zimmerman these observations were by one who was more maintained the orange mother plant in order interested in them as a garden plant than a to have a basis for comparison to the new Clivia maniac. breeds he worked to stabilize. In spite of the More recently I returned to the estate which has, patience and meticulous horticultural skill that in the interim, passed into the ownership of the his accomplishments represented, the soft- Coromandel Farmworkers Trust as an em­ spoken gardener insisted that his success was powerment project. The flats of the stable-hands based on a policy of benign neglect. He advised above the stables are now able to be booked as keeping clivias in crowded pots, giving them a holiday accommodation. The region had recently minimum of care. "That's the way they like it," experienced severe drought and when I went to he declared. look at the homestead - an architectural gem of [Extracted from 'Between Germany and the mid 1970s of Italian design, the architect Carlsbad: A High Yielding Bond' in The Journal being Marco Zanuso - I discovered that most of of San Diego History. Spring 1984, Volume 30, the clivias had become stunted brown stumps Number 2. http://www.sandiegohistory.org/ protruding from dry red dust. journal/84spring/carlsbad.htm] Not only had the drought taken its toll, but [This extract adds to what Koopowitz gives us in where there were plants bearing leaves, these Clivias (2002: 178-9). What is of interest is had been devoured by a particularly ghastly red- Zimmerman's direct links to the oral traditions jacketed locust, although it seems that this is of the German missionaries in South Africa, and done in their yellow-jacketed adolescent phase. his grandfather's access to the nurseries of Lady I started following the trail of leads in order to Clive in Northumberland. I am researching the track down the horticulturalist responsible for their cultivation. I discovered that the garden to saying that there was now too much growth had been landscaped by Patrick Watson, who and that the plants needed thinning, he was not has created, amongst others, the immense approving of these 'hybrid clivias1 in the garden! gardens of the Lost City, Coromandel House They must have arrived there at Mrs Press' being one of his first commissions. In fact instigation. There is a remnant patch of the Roberto Burle-Marx, who had at the time visited endemic C. caulescens which must have been South Africa, had first been commissioned, but planted to Patrick's original design. The roof Mrs Victoria Press, a feisty Jewess from the is a sod covered roof with a grassland on Bronx, did not fancy the design, and so it later top, interspersed with bulbs and other veld manifested somewhere in Brazil. I met with plants, as well as Cussonia, and aloes and Patrick to find out what he knew. In addition Natal bottlebrushes. It seems that Sidney Press, on Patrick's advice, had head­ hunted Mike Schurr, horticul­ turalist to the National Parks in Pretoria. Mike, as it turns out, is a contemporary, colleague and friend of John Winter. Mike Schurr has a nursery some 30-odd kilometers fur­ ther north on the Lydenburg - Orighstad road called 'Plants- man'. I went to pay him a visit. I'd been there previously on a Clivia crawl but at the time I was unaware of the association with Coromandel. to page 6 larke C icholas - N hotos P larke C icholas - N hoto P Klugro Nursery's Clivia stock

from page 5 demand, wishing to retain the breeding stock. In his time at Coromandel he had planted, Then he had had no clivias out for sale since they amongst his other endeavours, a grove of 60 000 had been under the locust plague. Apparently Olives, which the Board of Directors had the locals have superstitions about killing the removed after three consecutive years of hail creatures and are thus reluctant to do so. damage, all though Mike observes that even a I found out that Mike had come to Coromandel damaged fruit yields oil. in 1970 on a three year contract which turned In 1990 Mike finally retired from the service of into a twenty year stay! It was Sidney Press who Press and Coromandel, saying he was a plants- said "What about clivias, Mike?" So clivias it was, man and not a farmer. When he left the stock ordered from the catalogue of the German of Clivia plants was sold out to the trade and wholesale seed seller, Blossfeldt. collectors, Malanseuns in Pretoria and Klugro in Mike is of the opinion that the distributor Nelspruit being of the larger takers. sourced the seeds from a grower in Spain, and Mike is mystified by the Clivia maniacs who they were bought as 'Clivia Selecta1, a name that come and stare at his Clivia plants and ask has stuck, and under which Malanseuns, who "What Clivia is that?" For him a Clivia is a plant acquired much of the stock, still sell them. He is - granted, an attractive plant - but for all that, unaware of the epithet "Coromandel Robusta" just another plant. ▼ which is heard in Clivia circles. He had, at the zenith of cultivating these plants, a hectare under [My thanks to Sonya Swanepoel (Landscape shade-net. Architect), Mira Fassler-Kamstra (Architect) and I must add that the shade-net structures at Burt Henner (Landscaper) for help with leads Coromandel are in themselves well crafted pieces and contact details, and Patrick Watson and of engineering, now covering straggly and Mike Schurr for the time and information they struggling blueberry bushes. He sold the Clivia so generously gave. Thanks to Nicholas Clarke plants reluctantly, although there was great (Architect) for photography.] Clivia is a perennial plant. Its belt-shaped leaves Cover Photo - are flat and bright. They are green all the year WELLAND COWLEY round. The single flower has several buds on the top. This plant has beautiful leaves and flowers. Clivia nobilis "Pearl of the Cape" It originated in the southern part of Africa and Photo credit: Fred Roberts was introduced into China in the mid-19th dwarf plant of Clivia nobilis in my century. It is popular in northeast China, and is collection turned out to be an unexpected the city flower of Changchun. Yellow, red, pink Asurprise when it produced an inflores­ and white varieties have been developed. cence of pure yellow and green flowers recently. Designer of FDC and cancellation: Chen Huimin. In the Clivia alliance the yellow-flowered form is Text sourced from China Philately FDC Insert. a fairly common phenomenon being well repre­ Venda - South Africa sented in Clivia miniata as well as Clivia gardenii - the newly-described Clivia gardenii var. citrina The first definitive issue of postage stamps of being the case in point. The yellow form also occurs Venda (then independent from RSA) was issued in Clivia robusta and Clivia caulescens. So far a on 13 September 1979 and consists of 17 values pure yellow form of Clivia nobilis has been evasive. depicting flowers. As the postal tariff periodically There are known cases of yellowish flowers increased, additional values of flowers were tinged with salmon-pink, a phenomenon which issued to cover the need for the new tariff. The is especially evident as flowers age. A pure yellow 12 cents Clivia caulescens stamp was issued on and green form is therefore significant when 1st April 1985. The official First Day Cover is one considers this plant's horticultural potential. numbered as 1.23 .1 - a control block of four There is also great potential for future breeding stamps was available at the time of issue. with the aim to produce new green or yellow Artist: Dick Findlay interspecific hybrids. Interspecific hybrids usually Ciskei - South Africa flower in July, a period when there is a dearth of colour in shady areas in the garden. The poten­ This beautiful set of four stamps (16c- Bush Lily, tial for Clivia interspecific hybrids for use as 30c- Harebell, 40c - Butterfly Iris and 50c - Vlei border plants is therefore significant. Lily) depicting Protected Flowers, were issued on 17th March 1988 by the Ciskei Homeland. Back Cover - The issue consists of the set of four stamps, an official First Day Cover No.1.25, a set of four SAKKIE NEL Maximum Cards, a set of Control Blocks, a Clivia stamps around the globe miniature Sheet of 50c- Vlei Lily, a miniature Sheet on Foundation First Day Cover No. C3. Image credit: James Abel Artist: Auriol Batten China: After the 27th April 1994 elections Venda and The city of Chang Chun in China declared the Clivia Ciskei together with Transkei and Bophutatswana their national flower on 11th October 1984. were re-incorporated into the Republic of China State Post Bureau issued a set of four South Africa. special stamps under the title "Clivia" on December 12, 2000. They have a total face Western Sahara (Saharawi) - value of 5.20 yuan, and are titled respective­ (Between Mauritania and Morocco) ly: "Scarlet Kaffir Lily", "Noble Clivia", "Golden This Western Sahara small sheet shows the map Striate Kaffir Lily" and "White Kaffir Lily". of Africa and Madagascar with the border of [The plant names are unfortunate in the South Western Sahara in the left top corner. The Clivia African context. - Editor]. At the same time, a miniata stamp to the value of 200 PTAS has the miniature sheet was issued. letters "Sahara Occ RASD" placed in the top right Artist: Zena Xiaolian to page 8 from page 7 prices and where stock can be obtained corner. The words "Flores Africanas" are printed for Conference purposes. Contact Sakkie Nel on the small sheet, indicating that more than one [email protected] or +27 12 361 6415. stamp about "flowers of Africa" were possibly Japan issued. It will be most interesting to know how Major pioneering work was done by cultivating they came about discovering our little secret? miniatures like the Japanese Daruma and the Members with family or friends in Nouadhibou, variegated Akebonos, Japan has yet to issue Ad Dakhla, Boujdour, Al Aiún, and Cap Juby or stamps depicting this "most beautiful of all in the Canary Islands may be of much help. flowers". In Clivia circles, Mr. Yoshi Nakamura is Please contact Sakkie Nel in this regard as well such a beloved and valued friend and we are as if you can supply stock at affordable prices. proud to know that he, as a very important ([email protected] or +27 12 361 6415). Japanese citizen, appeared on a tab to a DPR Korea 10 Won Japanese stamp depicting a Sumurai warrior. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea Affordable stock needed for sale to interested (Northern Korea) issued a Clivia miniata stamp members. Kindly contact Sakkie Nel with informa­ for 10 Won. Kindly advise particulars about tion: [email protected] or +27 12 361 6415. ▼

my wife and I starting a nursery which we have Welland Cowley been running for 24 years. It was a big step for me to leave a secure job to go into the Nursery [Welland was asked to provide the CSNL with Business. I took this step in faith on the strength a potted biography - Editor], of a garden layout job which paid R800.00! s a schoolboy, back in the 60's, I started Over the years we have been tremendously growing plants as a hobby. Among the blessed and our business survived even though A plants which I grew in the greenhouse at water restrictions were introduced in the Port my parent's home were Indigenous Orchids as Elizabeth area three times during the 24 year well as Clivia nobilis. Before the plant bug bit I period and it looks like they will soon be intro­ was an avid collector of stamps, but soon sold duced again due to dam levels being as low as my stamp collection to raise funds to build my 40%. Our Nursery now concentrates on Cycads, first greenhouse and shade house while still a clivias, Strelitzias, Succulents and Indigenous trees. school boy at my parents home in Parsons Hill. Over the last 10 years I have been growing One of my greatest thrills was walking in the and breeding Interspecific hybrids as well as Indigenous bush around Knysna, climbing the developing improved Clivia miniata cultivars. Zuurberg and later exploring the forests around We supply both the local and export market. Grahamstown while a student at Rhodes It has been a great pleasure to see how the University. Eastern Province Clivia Club has developed from My interest in Clivia nobilis started while still a a fledgling interest group to a major role player schoolboy after I saw the plants growing at the in the Clivia world with over 240 members base of a cliff in dense rocky forest deep in the under the auspices of Chairman Willie Le Roux, forest in the Oliphant's Kop area. I was im­ with assistance from his wife Cynthia, and a pressed by the plants obvious xerophytic habit capable committee. (ability to withstand dry conditions) and also its almost lithophytic (ability to grow on rock) Clivias have become a household plant with the habit of often growing on large boulders. Eastern Cape Public and a good future is pre­ While working as an Industrial Engineer for dicted under our new chairman Andre Calitz. many years, I continued collecting plants and With my retirement around the corner my wife developing a shade garden suitable for growing and I will settle in Sedgefield where I will clivias. This 'passion' of mine later culminated in continue growing clivias as a hobby. ▼ Pat was not a founder member Pat Gore of the Clivia Club, but has a Tino Ferero letter dated 22 October 1993 from Nick Primich welcoming at Gore is one of the him as a member of the club. most colourful personali­ The first show at which Pties in the Clivia frater­ he exhibited was the 1994 nity, and one of the best Pretoria Show. Since then he known and well liked Clivia has exhibited at each Pretoria enthusiasts, not only in Show, as well as at shows Gauteng and the Northern in Johannesburg and Pieter­ Clivia Club, but throughout maritzburg. His plants have South Africa and many other won many major sections at countries. Most South African the various shows. and overseas Clivia lovers Pat also obtained many of the visiting Pretoria usually visit good plants in his collection Pat and Yvonne Gore to see from the late Joe Pretorius, one of the finest collections of Nick Primich, Dr Bing Wiese, clivias in South Africa and to Margo McNeil, the late Gert enjoy their wonderful friendli­ Pat Gore Wiese, Sean Chubb and Charl ness and hospitality. Malan. He has also grown Pat's love for plants started when he was a excellent plants from seed imported from Yoshi youngster of about 8 or 9 years of age. His Nakamura, Bill Morris, Keith Hammett and parents lived in Louis Trichardt (now Makhado) others. Pat loves to visit the Clivia shows across in the then Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo the country. This year alone he visited the Province), and he used to love walking in the shows at Newcastle, Pretoria, Pietermaritzburg, veld and climbing mountains to collect bulbs Western Cape and Eastern Cape. and succulents. Even at that young age he Pat does not name all his plants because there would visit local nurseries to buy plants such as are just too many of very top quality. Some of agapanthus, crinums, cacti and aloes. his named ones have become very famous and In the early 1960s the aloe craze hit him and he off-sets from these plants demand fairly high became a keen collector of aloes and a member prices. Here one thinks of Diana, Pat's Gold, of the Aloe Society and Operation Wildflower. Morné Bouquet, Fighting Port, Red Velvet, At more or less the same time he also became Beetroot and many others. an avid collector of cycads, and at one stage Pat's interest lies mainly in the flowers, but he had 152 cycads representing all the types with also has some very fine specimens of broad the exception of E. woodii. leaves, variegateds, Darumas and Light of His interest in clivias started in 1972 with clivias Buddha. bought from the Bosbok Nursery in Louis It has often been said that the real enjoyment Trichardt. In about 1978 he obtained his first of this fascinating hobby does not only lie in yellows and some other colours from Cynthia the growing of clivias with their amazing Giddy and Dick Jardine, and then the Clivia bug variations and beautiful flowers, but that it also really bit him. especially lies in getting to know the people In the 1980s he bought a collection of clivias who collect and grow them. from Dawie Pieterse, and out of this collection For many of us it has been an honour and he got his famous Diana. In 1993 he and privilege to have gotten to know one of the Frikkie Potgieter bought out the plants at the truly great characters of the Clivia fraternity in Coromandel Nursery in Mpumalanga. These South Africa. We look forward to many more plants included excellent broad leaves, reds, exceptional clivias and Clivia seed that will still pastels and other colours. come from his collection. ▼ Clivia nobilis west of Grahamstown grows in Pale forms of typical evergreen afro-mountain forest to be found on the foothills and southern slopes of Clivia nobilis the Zuurberg Range. Welland Cowley The topography of the area is interesting. The lower slopes are clothed in mountain fynbos he lighter colour forms of Clivia nobilis are where some of the dominant plants are Pelar­ to be found in the more westerly popu­ gonium reniforme, Erica canaliculata, Bulbine T lations of the Eastern Cape. altissima, Hypoxis stellipilis and Watsonia knysnana. The Clivia nobilis population west of Grahams­ As the altitude increases the fynbos is gradually town exhibits such an astonishing range of pastel overtaken by subtropical thicket vegetation. colours that is was decided to visit the popula­ Acacia karoo, Rhus chirindensis and Burchellia tion in order to study the various colour forms. bubalina are some of the small trees represented here. At this level some of the first Clivia nobilis may be encountered growing on steep slopes in what could be termed pioneer forest.

On our visit to this population no dense stands of Clivia nobilis were seen at the lower level. It was noticed that most plants were dwarf and were growing in a loamy soil which is un­ characteristic as nobilis usually occurs in humus- rich compost. It was also clear that not many of the plants had flowered even though it was September - this area receives a much higher light transmission due to lack of density of the canopy and open areas in the thicket. At still higher altitude the thorny thicket vege­ tation is replaced by true afro-montaine forest. Some of the larger tree species encountered here are: Harpephyllum caffrum, Cussonia spicata, and Pterocelastrus tricuspidatus. The canopy at this level is much denser and the terrain is extremely rocky. This made going difficult. We were amazed at the numbers of Clivia nobilis to be seen occurring in such dense stands that they were the most dominant plants on the forest floor. The population is extremely healthy with evidence of many seedlings and is not deemed threatened at this stage. While there is some evidence of degradation due to the harvesting of plants for the local medicine trade the population should remain healthy due to the rugged nature of the terrain.

It was interesting to see that some plants have adopted a semi-lithophytic habit and were found to be growing on the top of large boulders in the thin layer of leaf litter to be found there with no evidence of stunting.

Many plants were in flower at the time of our visit and many others were in fruit. The flower colours ranged from light peach to orange/ red. This is in In its natural habitat in the Zuurberg Mountains contrast to nobilis populations in the dunes along Clivia nobilis is associated with Dracaena the East Coast near East London where the aletriformis (Forest dragon tree) and Rumohra predominant colour is dark orange to red. adianthiformis (Seven-weeks fern). to page 12 owley C elland - W hoto P Plants damaged in habitat by muti collectors from page 11

The Southern slopes of the Zuurberg through the forest in the now-steady rain we mountains receive relief rainfall and at higher couldn't help but wonder how old these altitudes the precipitation is much higher (It mountains were. How old was this forest? was raining when we came down the What plants thrived here? What animals mountain) with the result that Epiphytic roamed here at the dawn of Creation? orchids such as co-exist Mystacidium capense Perhaps only the Clivia nobilis in their lofty in the canopy above the clivias. fortress now far above us knows the answers. As we made our way down the slippery slopes Perhaps we never will. ▼

accept, as we also had old friends to see in NZ New Zealand in and a sister to visit in Sydney, on the way home. The timing was right, coming after the main October 2005... Cape Town flowering season, so I could leave my precious plants! John van der Linde What aspects of our visit stood out for me? Well, my eyes were those of someone wearing y wife and I were invited by the New many hats (If that makes sense to you!): Clivia Zealand Clivia Club to attend their Show fancier, grower, breeder, seller, helper at Shows, Mand two of their Clivia exhibitions, to amateur photographer, Club Committee mem­ help promote Clivia and to talk to members. The ber, and someone on the look-out for bright Club already has over 200 members, the vast ideas for all of the above. majority being on the North Island, with 50% from outside Auckland. The Club is dynamic We arrived just in time for the Auckland Show, and is growing fast. We were delighted to held on 7/8 October at the Botanical Gardens in a superb "all glass" purpose-built venue used for interest to be replaced by a narrow Clivia obsession flower shows. The natural lighting showed off -just see our place! Maybe other NZCC members, the plants very well. There is no competition on smaller properties, have the same problem? judging, but I liked the way they instead involve We also enjoyed the social Clivia Club get- the public in voting for "The peoples' favourite". togethers in Auckland, Tauranga and Oakura The plant chosen may not always be a plant for and I was more than once reminded of what a the purists, but the approach gives a useful member of a daylily club somewhere said: indication to growers/sellers of the public's then "I joined for the plants - I stay for the people". current taste. But the big question is: what will Our stay in NZ reached a stunning climax with a excite the public next year? four day visit right at the end of October to the I had always heard that NZ was the place to go privately-owned magnificent Ngamamaku to see dark orange/red miniatas, so I was Gardens, at Oakura, near New Plymouth, the surprised to note the high proportion of yellows region where the annual Taranaki Rhododen­ on show, some of them quite magnificent, and dron Festival was in full swing, with 45 (yes, the relatively small number of dark orange/reds 45!) gardens open to the public. People come then to be seen. I was told that many plants had from all over the world to see flowers like I have flowered earlier than usual that year. However, never seen in my life! Absolutely unbelievable! what impressed me as a breeder was how top I could not stop taking pictures. What a great growers have line-bred with particular well- venue for an end-of-season Clivia exhibition! It known plants; Terry Hatch with his Aberconway seems to me that the NZCC has a clear strategy Yellow, Ian Duncalf with Solomone stock, to get exposure and grow interest in clivias by - Murray Gow with 'Sir John Thouron', and David I can think of no other word - "piggybacking" on Brundell with Vico Yellow. Alick McLeman, other Shows/Festivals which pull in the crowds. again, is working on totally different lines, May the NZCC go from strength to strength. particularly in developing his peaches. I contrast this more disciplined approach with that more Since arriving home I have set out to 'spread the often followed in South Africa, where many of word' about NZ, their clivias, and the super us cross-pollinate rather haphazardly. people that we met. I have arranged to speak about our trip to South African Clubs and have When visiting another country one almost already spoken to the Cape and the Garden instinctively compares prices. I saw a magnificent Route Clubs. My pictures have been an eye- yellow Clivia, with at least two umbels of flowers, opener to many and I hope will encourage sold at the Show for $60. That plant would have South African Clivia folk to visit NZ, especially cost say R300 here, more than the R264 straight for their planned October 2008 International conversion to South African currency. Conference, after the end of our mainly- We enjoyed our visits to the large properties of September flowering season. Thanks to the Keith Hammett, David Brundell, Terry Hatch and NZCC for a memorable experience. Ian Duncalf, and appreciated the variety of other Would we go again? You bet we would! plants that they have the space to grow. The average South African Clivia grower, usually on a (John and Beth also met with Clivia growers in smallish suburban property, is often swamped by Melbourne and Sydney on the Australian leg of clivias, with other plants pushed into the back­ their trip. John will tell us about that in the next ground. It is easy for well-balanced and broad Newsletter. The Editor). ▼ The importance of the flower pedicels in selective breeding of variegated Clivia

John van der Linde

ynopsis: It appears that the degree of "good" (as subjectively defined below) varie­ variegation in the pedicels (stalks) of the gation, 2 had slight striping, 2 had no stripes, Sflowers of variegated Clivia may be the best and one was an albino, which I took to mean a guide for pollinating them to produce desirable plant which I assessed as having no further variegated progeny with few albinos. chance of survival due to an in-sufficiency of chlorophyll in the then existing leaves. Much has been written on what type of variegation should be selected in the parent Secondly I self-pollinated a flower on a non- plants to avoid albinos when breeding variegated pedicel. This also gave rise to a non- variegated Clivia. For example, it has been variegated fruit, despite the variegation in the suggested that selfing a variegated plant can leaves of the (mother) plant from which I took result in 100% albinos. More recently there has the pollen. There were 5 seedlings, none of been a discussion by members of the Clivia which had any variegation in their leaves at 6 Enthusiasts Group about the possible relation­ months. There were no albinos. ship between variegation in the mother plant's The remaining flowers were pollinated with leaves and fruit and that in the leaves of plants pollen from a non-variegated yellow. As to grown from the seed in each fruit. inherited flower colour as indicated by stem colour, half of the resulting 74 seedlings had Following a conversation with Harold Koopo- pigmented stems and half had green stems, as witz at the Pietermaritzburg International Clivia expected. Conference in September 2002, I did an experi­ ment. I wanted to study the extent to which The variegation results from that pollination variegation in a mother Clivia plant, carried up were as follows: the stem (peduncle), through the stalks Lightly variegated fruit on variegated pedicels (pedicels) bearing the flowers, and eventually to gave me 17 seedlings, 11 of which had leaves the fruit, influenced variegation in the leaves of with "good" variegation, 2 were slightly striped the resulting seedlings. at 6 months, one had no stripes, and 3 were I pollinated a plant with variegated leaves. This albinos. is an extremely vigorous and attractive light Heavily variegated (subjectively defined by me orange, which is split for yellow. I harvested the as having a significant amount of striping wider fruit in 2003, carefully noting the extent of than pin-stripe) fruit was borne (as Harold variegation on each fruit and the pedicel Koopowitz had led me to expect) on pedicels bearing it. I germinated and planted the seeds which were also heavily variegated. There were in seed trays, separated into the fruit/pedicel 22 seedlings, 5 of which had "good" varie­ categories described below. In April 2004, i.e gation, one slight striping, and - significantly - about 6 months after planting, I potted up the 16 were albinos. seedlings and noted the results. I have dug up Non-variegated fruit borne on non-variegated my notes from which I have compiled the pedicels gave me 35 seedlings, 15 of which had summary below: "good" variegation, 12 had slight striping, and I had used three different pollens. The first 4 had no stripes. There were 4 albinos. pollen was from a good broad-leaf orange, with Aggregating the results for all 74 seedlings of no variegation in its leaves. The resulting seeds, the same non-variegated yellow pollen paren­ from non- variegated fruit borne on a variegated tage across the fruit/pedicel combinations, pedicel, gave me 9 seedlings, of which 4 had I found: - 31 (42%) had "good" variegation, 16 of year for the same crosses. which had green stems, In my view, leaf variegation, on its own, is an - 15 (20%) had slightly variegated leaves, 5 of insufficient guide to the variegation that can be which had green stems, expected in seedlings - 5 (7%) had no variegation, 3 of which had To produce statistically significant results, any green stems, experiment like this should be large scale, and - 23 (31%) were albinos, 13 of which had good records should be kept, including records green stems. of seeds that may not have germinated and Now, what is "good" variegation? It depends on seedlings that may not have survived to the date what each person likes - it really is "different when the variegation measurements are made. strokes for different folks", if you will excuse the My experiment did not control for this aspect. pun. I suppose I was just isolating what I con­ Also, categorizing the degree of variegation of sidered, at the early age of 6 months, those fruit, pedicels and leaves is inevitably a subjec­ then looking potentially most saleable on the tive business - your ideas of "good" variegation basis of their variegation. and mine could be quite different. Would the results, particularly the percentage of It does seem possible though, right at the albinos, have been different had I used other pollination stage, to take steps to minimize the pollens? It would be difficult (impossible?) to percentage of albino seedlings that you are tell from an experiment like mine, even if I eventually likely to get: compared the results of only two large-scale Follow Harold Koopowitz' advice and look at pollinations. This is because one cannot find any your flowers, and the pedicels bearing them. I two pedicels that are exactly the same in order suggest you consider pollinating only the to do "like-for-like" comparable pollinations with flowers on pedicels which are not variegated or the two different pollens; the pattern of which are only lightly variegated. As a guide, variegation on each pedicel and resultant fruit is look also at the variegation on the peduncle, unique - it seems to have a major influence on flowing through to the pedicels. In due course the seeds inside it, regardless of any influence this variegation is likely to flow through to the the pollen parent may have. fruits that you will obtain. Evidence from various I don't want to draw general conclusions from growers, including my experiment above, would my particular results, other than to say, in suggest that the wider the stripes flowing summary: through to the fruit, the greater the probability Results will certainly vary from mother plant to of obtaining a higher percentage of albino mother plant. seedlings. They may also be pollen parent influenced, but, Finally, I want to thank Mick Dower for the as I said, this cannot be shown in an experiment assistance he gave me in improving the initial such as mine. They may even vary from year to drafts of this article. ▼ 4th International Clivia Conference

6 th & 7 th September 2006 Pretoria, South Africa

n behalf of the Clivia Society and the Auction Northern Clivia Club, we would like to An auction is planned as one of the highlights Oinvite you to experience the world of the of Clivia 2006 where a selection of the best Clivia and meet with other Clivia Enthusiasts in clivias available will be up for grabs. Closer to September 2006 at the 4th International Clivia the time, all the accepted plants will be Conference. This will be the highlight of our illustrated on the website as the catalogue is botanical calendar and a showcase for develop­ finalised. ments in our knowledge of the genus Clivia and the strides that we have made in its ennoble­ ment and popularisation. Tours and Other Shows

A magnificent show (9 & 10 September) will A number of pre- and post-conference tours accompany and complement the conference, have been planned to take the Clivia Enthusiast which will be addressed by speakers from all around all the Clivia habitats in South Africa as over the Clivia world. well as visits to as many regional shows as possible. For many, time is limited so we have Three major themes have been identified for tried to compress activities into the minimum this conference: period. The conference is timed for the normal • Which way for Clivia - future perspectives: flowering period of C. miniata, which starts in what do we need to do? the north, followed by the east and then the • Recording Clivia: the why, the what & the south coast (from west to east). This has deter­ how. mined the timing of the regional shows so we • Natures gift: diversity, habitat & evolution have planned the habitat tours in between them. The show and tour program covers most South African National Clivia Show of South Africa's scenic and botanic areas and is planned to be unforgettable. In conjunction with the conference, the National Clivia Show will be held as a showcase Accommodation will be available in the homes of the Clivia Growers art where the very best of of local enthusiasts or in B&B's and hotels. Clivia will be on display. In addition to the many We anticipate a keen interest in the proposed plants on show, a wide variety of plants will be program, so if your are interested in partici­ offered for sale by top growers. Start now to pating please book your accommodation well in prepare your plants! advance. ▼

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Clivia 2006, P O Box 74868, Lynnwood Ridge, 0040, South Africa

Tel: +27 12 8041899 • Fax: +27 12 8048892 • Email: www.cliviasociety.org Events & Activities

DATE EVENTS & ACTIVITIES Mon 28 August Bulb Society conference in Cape Town and Western Cape visits to Fri 1 September Sat 2 September Western Cape visits Northern KwaZulu-Natal Show in Newcastle Show of Lowveld Interest Group in Nelspruit Sun 3 September Trips around Gauteng Mon 4 September Tue 5 September Conference 17:00-18:00 Early conference registration 18:00 Informal social function Wed 6 September Clivia 2006 Conference Thu 7 September Fri 8 September Gauteng day trips (such as Soweto, de Wildt and Rietvlei Nature Reserves, Apartheid Museum, Cradle of Humankind, Gold Reef City, Cullinan Diamond Mine) and visits to local growers in Pretoria. Contact Sure Travel Studio to arrange your day trips. Sat 9 September South African National Clivia Show in Pretoria. Evening - Clivia auction Sun 10 September South African National Clivia Show in Pretoria Visits to growers in Pretoria Mon 11 September Caulescens tour to Thu 14 September Fri 15 September Travel or at leisure Sat 16 September Joburg Clivia Club Show in Johannesburg, Gauteng KwaZulu-Natal Clivia Club show in Pietermaritzburg. Sun 17 September KwaZulu-Natal Midlands Tour to miniata & gardenii habitats. Mon 18 September KwaZulu-Natal South Coast Tour to miniata, gardenii & robusta habitats. Tuesday 19 September Tour to collections of Roly Strachan and Sean Chubb. Wed 20 September Visit Clivia nobilis habitat near Kei Mouth. Thursday 21 September Visit Clivia nobilis habitats near Port Alfred and Grahamstown. Friday 22 September (a) Eastern Province Clivia Show in Port Elizabeth followed by Clivia auction and braai (barbeque). Visits to local growers or Kragga Gamma Game Park, (b) Depart for Cape Town to attend Cape Clivia Club Show. (c) Attend Free State Clivia Club Show in Bloemfontein Saturday 23 September Eastern Province Clivia Club Show in Port Elizabeth. Cape Clivia Club Show in Bellville Civic Centre (Cape Town). Sunday 24 September Visit to the Western Cape Monday 25 September Tue 26 September Visit to the Western Cape Thursday 28 September Friday 29 September Travel to George to attend Garden Route Clivia Club Show Saturday 30 September Garden Route Clivia Club Show in George Visits to Clivia mirabilis in habitat can be arranged - contact Hein Grebe Clivia on postage stamps

Our First "Madness" ountries worldwide normally depict as­ pects on their postage stamps of which Cthey are very proud or which illustrates their heritage or culture at best and bound them together as a united nation. A "sports mad" country like South Africa was as recently as 1961 one of only four countries world wide, who were in danger of being last to issue a postage stamp reflecting any kind of sport. In his book "Sports Stamps (1961)". The Swede, Carl- Olof Enhagen, referred to the fact that only Andorra, Chile, Ethiopia and South Africa have as yet to issue stamps on Sports. He found it especially strange that the "Springboks", who were excellent opponents stamps at about R12.00 per sheet. It is very and competitors with various Olympic records, difficult to advise anybody to buy the stamps in had never honoured any of their athletes. mint condition or cancelled (used). Best practice will be to try and buy both if affordable, and South Africa issued two rugby stamps on the because you like them and "not for making a 8th May 1964 to commemorate the 75th major investment" in doing so. jubilee of the South African Rugby Board and thereby barely beat Andorra into the last An official First Day Cover will definitely exist but position (1966). Andorra is a small country (175 this is a wonderful opportunity for members to square miles) in the Pyrenees Mountains be­ design their own first day cover and on the day tween France and Spain. of issue buy the stamps and have the envelope signed by some of the important people at the Our Second "Madness" conference, have your stamps hand cancelled Most Capetonians do believe that one can drink and send your envelope through the postal too much wine, but never enough. Likewise, channel. Hold thumbs that nobody likes your Clivia growers believe that one may have too beauty so much that "it will be lost in transit". many Clivia plants, but never ever enough! Add Substantial quantities of these items will be to that, the fact that we may have our favorite available and members need not fear that he or beauties on tiny pieces of paper called postage she will lose out in obtaining some. Watch the stamps and we will try to jump the moon for joy. Clivia Society website for particulars about Although Clivia is indigenous to South Africa prices, availability and how to order. and Swaziland, both countries were beaten Kathy Anderson of the USA, who collects hands down by at least five postal admini­ flowers on stamps, will surely look forward to strations worldwide. add this hopefully beautiful addition to her all ready wonderful collection. [See Stories behind the Covers] People interested in philately and thematic South Africa: 6 September 2006 collecting now have a wonderful opportunity to On the first day of the International Clivia get and have the complete set of international Conference to be held in Pretoria, the South stamps of Clivia. African Postal Authority will issue a set of six Happy collecting to everybody. ▼ stamps with Clivia artwork. We were told that all Sakkie Nel six would be standard postage tariff (R1.85). A Convener of Northern Clivia Club Auction full sheet of stamps will contain the six different February 17, 2006; [email protected] ADVERTISEMENTS point out that it is difficult to quote a fixed price without knowing the method of payment Tariffs for advertising in the Clivia Society and delivery. Newsletter: We suggest you contact Bossie de Kock Smalls (1 to 6 lines): R25.00 (the treasurer) via e-mail at: bossiedekock@ Smalls (7 to 10 lines): R30.00 absamail.co.za or by fax at +27 12 804 8892 Quarter page: R70.00 and list the items you are interested in as well Half page: R125.00 as the name of the country in which you reside. Full Page: R250.00 Bossie would then be in a position to suggest A5 separate page insert: R600.00 the most economical option. Australian, UK, A4 separate page insert: R800.00 New Zealand and USA members are reminded (You will be sent an account from the treasurer that they can order via Ken Smith, Dr Hamish for the appropriate amount.) Sloan, Di Smith and James Black respectively - FROM THE CLIVIA SOCIETY see inner back pages for contact details. Overseas members can order back volume Also note that further discounts can be nego­ copies of the Yearbooks and Newsletters (since tiated with Bossie for orders exceeding 10 of a 1992) via the society. South African members specific item. The items listed in the table are should approach their local branches. We must available. ▼

Item Approximate price (US $)* Yearbook 7 15 Yearbook 6 15 Yearbook 5 out of stock Yearbook 4 10 Yearbook 3 10 Yearbook 2 10 Yearbook 1 out of stock Cultivation of Clivias 15 Volumes 1(1992) to 11 (2002) of newsletters 10 per volume Set of volumes 1 to 10 available on request International membership list - hard copy 2 International membership list - electronic format No charge *Including postage and banking charges if paid by credit card. Contact Bossie de Kock for quotation re payments made by cheque. PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS locations. Phone Andrew (039) 3135024 a/h or cell 082 7845401. Clivia species, interspesifics and specialties. Clivia miniata: Creams, yellows, peaches, apri­ Participate in our coordinated imports and ex­ cots, reds, pastels and polychromes. Seed, seed­ ports of seeds and plants - Asia, ANZ, N. Am. & lings, mature plants and offsets of stock plants Eu. Connie Abel, Pretoria, +27-12-3616406 or bred and selected over 25 years. Contact Bing [email protected] Wiese, Pretoria tel/fax (012) 460 6382 to view. Yellow Nogqaza strains from R15 to R120. Thurlow Flora: We have on offer a large variety Orange from R1 to R6 for mature plants. Delivery of carefully bred seedlings and mature plants anywhere. SOUTH AFRICAN CLIVIA PLANTATION, for sale. We specialize in pastel colours, Box 855, Hilton 3245. Call 082 955 5433. oddities, species and original wild collected and Clivia miniata. Seed R100 per kilogram. Year old named clones of Clivia. Mail order and visitors plants R2 each. Roly Strachan, Box 5, Highflats welcome. For our latest plant list please contact 3306 or Tel. (039) 835 0085 evenings only. Sean and Terri Chubb. Tel: 031 7811978 e-mail: Swamp gardenii and miniata seed and seed­ [email protected]. We also have available a lings available from various Natal and Transkei few hundred different named daylily clones. ▼ CLIVIA CLUBS AND INTEREST GROUPS South African The Noble Lady Clive, National Clivia Show Cape and Pearls 9 & 10 SEPTEMBER 2006 Helen Sanders C D- DATES ) Enquiries: Frikkie Potgieter Tel: 012 335 4590 • Cell: 082 979 4436 E-mail: [email protected]

Full details will be available soon at www.cliviasociety.org

| LATE NEWS From the Clivia Society Chairperson Chris Vlok ow, what an excellent newsletter - Conference bags and I do not only refer to the new look If you are unable to attend Clivia2006 but (thank you Freda). Thank you Roger W would like to have a conference bag (see for the time, the initiative and especially all your Clivia Bags at http://www.cliviasociety.org/clivia research that went into this publication. Thank 2006/fresh_news.php), contact the Society you also to those who have contributed by: secretary. Limited number available. • Submitting snippets and/or articles for the To make your participation of post-conference publication tours and other regional shows more afford­ • Assisting with the proofreading. able, the organising committee are busy putting a tour bus in place with which you can travel Northern Clivia Club auction from Pretoria to Pietermaritzburg, go on the entries three KwaZulu-Natal habitat tours, proceed to If you have not yet entered, there are few places the Eastern Cape to go on the Clivia Nobilis left for select plants. Send in your entries habitat tours and attend the Eastern Province as soon as possible. Your contact person is Clivia Club show in Port Elizabeth. Please con­ Sakkie Nel ([email protected] or +27 12 tact James Abel at [email protected] or tel 361 6415). +27 12 361 6406 for more detail. ▼ REPRESENTATIVES OF CLIVIA ENTHUSIASTS ▼ Tony Barnes Ngamamaku, 1521 Sur f Highway 45, R.D.4 New Plymouth, 4061 New Zealand. Tel: 64-6-752 7873; e-mail: tony.john@x tra.co.nz ▼ Ken Smith 593 Hawkesbury Rd., Winmalee, NSW 2777, Australia. Tel: +61 2 47543287; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Aart van Voorst Frederick Hendriklaan 49, Hillegom, TE 2181, Netherlands Tel: +31 252529679; email: [email protected] ▼ James Black 10606 North 166th East Ave., Owasso, OK 74055 USA Tel: (918) 272-4623; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Dr Hamish Sloan 40 Wendan Road, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 7AF, England, UK Tel: 044 1635 47417; e-mail: [email protected]

OTHER OVERSEAS CONTACT PERSONS FOR MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION ▼ New Zealand Di Smith, 71 Taylor Road, Mangere Bridge, Auckland, New Zealand Tel: (09) 634 6807 or 021 231 9200; e-mail: [email protected]

CONTACT DETAILS FOR CLIVIA CLUBS AND INTEREST GROUPS ▼ Cape Clivia Club Joy Woodward (Secretary). PO Box 53219, Kenilworth 7745 Tel/Fax: 021 671 4687; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Eastern Province Clivia Club Andre Calitz (Chairperson) Tel: 082- 574 9058 (h) 041-367 4476 e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Free State Clivia Club Hennie van der Mescht, 18 Mettam Street, Fichardt Park, Bloemfontein, 9322. Tel: +27 51 522 9530 Fax +27 51 436 4340; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Garden Route Clivia Club Gerrie Brits (Chairperson). Tel: +27 44 8746233 a/h Fax: +27 44 8707550 Cell: 082 921 7963; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Joburg Clivia Club Glynn Middlewick (Chairperson). 2 Willow Road, Northcliff, 2195 Tel: +27 11 476 1463; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ KwaZulu-Natal Clivia Club Sean Chubb (Chairperson). Thurlow Farm, PO Box 126, Eston, 3740 Tel & Fax: +27 31 781 1978; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Northern Clivia Club Lena van der Merwe (Secretary). PO Box 74868, Lynnwood Ridge, 0040 Tel & Fax: +27 12 804 8892; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Waterberg Boslelieklub An Jacobs. PO Box 3893, Nylstroom, 0510 Tel & Fax: +27 14 717 23674; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Border Interest Group John Roderick. PO Box 2429, Beacon Bay, 5205. Tel: +27 82 567/ 7069; Fax: 0866124473; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Lowveld Interest Group Ian Radmore (Secretary). PO Box 1146, White River, 1240 Tel: +27 13 751 2051; e-mail: ian@nelvet1 .agric.za ▼ Northern KZN Hottie Human (Chairperson). PO Box 20244, Newcastle, 2940 Tel: +27 34 3181327 or +27 82 290 6332; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Overberg Clivia Felicity Weeden. PO Box 1468, Hermanus,7200 Interest Group Tel: + 27 28 Group. 316 3092 e-mail: [email protected] or Caroline Phipps Tel: + 27 73 221 5267 or Cell: 028 341 0014 ▼ Welkom Interest Group Louis Chadinha (Chairperson). PO Box 2204, Welkom, 9460 Tel: 057 3576067; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Zoutpansberg Enthusiasts Anneke Stroebel (Secretary). PO Box 1712, Louis Trichardt, 0920 Tel: +27 83 326 6073. Fax: +27 15 516 5710; e-mail: [email protected]

1. To coordinate the interests, activities and objectives of constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; 2. To participate in nature conservation activities in relation to the protection and conservation of the genus Clivia in its natural habitat, to promote the genus Clivia and in that context also to promote the observation of conservation laws and practices; 3. To promote the cultivation, conservation and improvement of the genus Clivia by 3.1 the exchange and mutual dissemination of information amongst Constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; 3.2 where possible, the mutual exchange of plants, seed and pollen amongst Constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; and 3.3 the mutual distribution of specialised knowledge and expertise amongst Constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; 4. To promote the progress of and increase in knowledge of the genus Clivia and to advance it by enabling research to be done and by the accumulation of data and dissemination thereof amongst Constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; 5. To promote interest in and knowledge of the genus Clivia amongst the general public; and 6. To do all such things as may be necessary and appropriate for the promotion of the abovementioned objectives.

▼ CHAIRMAN Chris Vlok POBox 99583, Garsfontein 0060 Tel H +27 12 998 5942 e-mail: [email protected]

▼ VICE-CHAIRMAN John van der Linde 1 Wheelan Str., Newlands, 7700 Tel & Fax +27 21 671 4535 e-mail: [email protected]

▼ SECRETARY Lena van der Merwe P O Box 74868, Lynnwood Ridge, 0040 Tel & Fax +27 12 804 8892 e-mail: [email protected]

▼ TREASURER Bossie de Kock P O Box 38539, Garsfontein, 0042 Tel +27 12 807 2173 e-mail: [email protected]

▼ OFFICE BEARER Ken Smith 593 Hawkesbury Rd., Winmalee, NSW 2777, Tel +61 2 47543287 Australia, e-mail: [email protected]

▼ Cape Claude Felbert, Gerrit van Wyk and Johan Schoombee

▼ Eastern Province Andre Calitz, Willie le Roux and Wimpie Maas

▼ Northern Lena van der Merwe, Peter Lambert and Bossie de Kock

▼ KwaZulu-Natal Sean Chubb and Liz Boyd

▼ Free State Hennie van der Mescht

▼ Garden Route Gerrie Brits

▼ Joburg Glynn Middlewick and Koos Geldenhuys Table of Contents

▼ CLIVIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE- AND CONSTITUENT MEMBERS Inner Front Cover ▼ EDITORIAL - Roger Fisher 2 ▼ CORRESPONDENCE 3 ▼ NAMES & THE GENUS Clivia James Backhouse 5 ▼ PEOPLE BEHIND THE PLANTS - Ian Coates 6 ▼ STORIES BEHIND THE COVERS Cover photo - Florid White Lips - Dirk Lootens 7 Back cover Photo - Cameron peach - a brief history - Mike Christie 7 Back cover Illustration 1 - Clivia gardenii var. citrina - Artist: Sibonelo Chiliza 8 Back cover Illustration 2 - Dweller in the mist Clivia x nimbicola - natural hybrid in the genus Clivia - Artist: Magda Nel 9 ▼ CLIVIA PERSONALITY "How Clivia saved my life" - Di Smith 10 ▼ GROWERS A BREEDERS NOTES Q&A 11 Pollen mentoring of non-selfing plants 11 ▼ REGISTERED CULTIVARS Clivia Cultivar Checklist and Registration - Kenneth R Smith 12 ▼ TRIBUTES Bing Wiese - Chris Vlok; Glynn Middlewick 13 Sir Peter Smithers - John van der Linde 13 ▼ HERITAGE CLIVIA The Heritage Clivia Collection - Sean Chubb 14 ▼ JUDGING & STANDARDS The Clivia Society Judging Committee - where are we now? - Roger Dixon 16 Award Judging - Henriëtte Strӧh 17 ▼ CONFERENCE NEWS Clivia 2006 18 Order Form for Clivia Stamps 19 ▼ CLIVIA SOCIETY Reflections on the Annual General meeting: 20 May 2006 - Chris Vlok 22 ▼ A note on the Journal Bothalia 21 ▼ CLIVIANA A Saharawi Clivia from Saskatchewan for Yoshikazu Nakamura - James Abel 26 ▼ CLIVI-ARTA Jaws - Helen Sanders 26 ▼ ADVERTISEMENTS 28 ▼ REPRESENTATIVES OF CLUBS & ENTHUSIASTS CONTACT DETAILS Inner Back Cover It is solstice. For we down south the days will grow longer yet time will not stand still. The 2006 AGM has come and gone and I have yet another hat to wear - although what a hat labelled 'Clivia Society PRO' means I have yet to discover. The experience in George was a delight - plant people remain generous - sharing knowledge, ideas and just plain 'skinder' ('gossip' in English sounds too negative). Some of the stories brought tears of laughter. If I can get their tellers to record them I'll give them to you for some Christmas cheer at year's end. Then the hospitality of the hosting club, the Garden Route Clivia Club, was as warm as the weather was wet and chilly. We dined and wined well - more accurately quaffed specially brewed beer from the local hop crops and served to the discerning - and given a sumptuous traditional braai but all seated around the spacious home of the hosts, Tobie and Loretta McDonald. My personal thanks to all those concerned with making the occasion memorable. After the pre-AGM discussion of judging standards the AGM seamed to run seamlessly, although with some spirited discussion. There is something to be said for having contentious issues work- shopped so as to have them presented in accord for rubber stamping. This procedure can be usefully employed in future. We have had to take leave of members who are now part of that eternal community of Clivia growers, Sir Peter Smithers of Vico fame and Bing Wiese, a private individual greatly valued and respected in his Clivia circle. Totsiens. The Conference looms large on a close time horizon and there is much activity, anxiety and anticipation. There has been correspondence with a delegation from China and it is hoped that the numbers of the international contingent of visitors are swelled by their arrival. Local members have been tardy in response yet still expected in Pretoria/Tshwane. Our overseas guests are currently getting more Rands to the Dollar so you'll have more to spend. This is a red-letter issue in that it introduces a new category of collectibles - namely Heritage Clivia. Fred van Niekerk relates that on his trail of the yellows (see Clivia 7 for Freds' article) he found much of the information was either lost, untrustworthy or could not be corroborated. He suggested to Sean Chubb that a Heritage Collection of living reference material be started, which Sean has done, as he relates in this Newsletter. Then there have been new variants formally described in the botanical literature and these are illustrated and described in the section of 'Stories behind the covers'. I am introducing a section on 'Cliviana' - discussions of collectibles for those who still have space for Clivias in their hearts but no room for more plants - and deep pockets! This was prompted by the contributions on 'Clivias on stamps' in the previous issue. Contributions for this from the membership, as with all of the columns, are sought and welcomed. Let me get down to the conference issue. See you all there. ▼ Roger Fisher - Editor uring the month of June we lost two of time in order to better serve the forum member our most respected members - Sir Peter needs. DSmithers and Dr Bing Wiese. These two real Any images/photos on the website can be gentlemen will be sadly missed and remembered downloaded onto a hard disc. This opens the for many years. Please see Tributes on page 13. possibility to download the photos to, for

Chris Viok - Chairperson: Clivia Society example, the Clivia Society library (on the Society website), to start a virtual show etc. (we New Clivia Discussion Forum will only need a volunteer to handle the task). A few of us started a new e-forum for Clivia All Clivia lovers are invited to join this group and with the following advantages: help us to reach more (and new) 'victims for the 1. The platform provides for uploading of addiction of Clivia'. In the first week of the forum, images as part of a message (the whole some posts were read by more than 300 viewers! message as well as images are stored on the Please note that this forum does not replace the platform - unlimited period). existing Yahoo e-group. It is intended to provide 2. The maximum file size for an image is 500KB. a further platform to accommodate Clivia lovers 3. As messages are stored on the platform no who, for their own reasons, will prefer a further hard disk space is used on your computer. functionality or who wish to expand their views 4. Messages are available immediately for your­ to more interested people. v self and others to see (no moderator delays). Regards 5. All replies to a message are kept as part of the original message (no need to search for Dries Oliver follow ups, replies are organised sequen­ [email protected] tially subsequent to an original post)

6. Members can send one another personal Clivia never ceases to surprise mails via the platform (so again no hard disk space used for inter personal mails on Donalie Floekstra the forum). If requested when posting of Jeffrey's Bay a topic, the system automatically sends some time ago participants on a topic a normal mail (on bought a tray of your registered mail address) informing you Clivia seedlings of a reply to your post. from Charl Coetzee in Port Elizabeth. 7. The system interactively shows the number They flourished and of replies to a post as well as the number of soon had to be times a post has been viewed. potted separately. 8. The platform can be visited at any time While busy re­ (when you wish to access it) and messages potting, Donalie and images remain visible. noticed that one 9. All members of the platform are gardening of the plants had enthusiasts (13 independent main forums). a different looking 10. The platform recently started an auction sucker. It had a cane-like stem and leaves facility. growing out of knots at intervals up the stem. The website address is: http://forums.tinkersgardens. It later shed its leaves and formed a new sucker com/forum_topics.asp?FID= 107&PN=1 at the top of the original sucker, which by now Another way is to go into www.tinkersgardens. looked like a piece of cane. The cane-like stem com, click on FORUMS at the top, then click on with quite a large rooted sucker is clearly visible Clivia under FORUMS. on the accompanying photo. ▼

The current sub headings may be changed over Cvnthia Le Roux - EP Clivia Club Liaison My first Clivia - relating a plant to its Variegated Cyrtanthiflora

Hamburg habitat Dear Mr Fisher

After my retirement in 1981 my wife and I A Mr T Whitelaw wrote re variegated relocated to Port Elizabeth. Cyrtanthiflora. I have photos enclosed of some of mine. Should he want some seeds from me I As a welcoming gesture our neighbour pre­ will send him some. sented us with some plants. As the area underneath some huge palm trees was quite I have enclosed barren, I thought it would be the ideal place to pictures of the plant them in. One of the plants grew remark­ Bug Eater. You ably well in spite of competing with the palm throw to the tree roots for survival, whilst the others had to ground the be saved from extinction. It produced orange water and the flowers each year and made lots of off-shoots. lizards eat the dead moths I only found out a couple of years later that it is and insects. in fact a Clivia. In 2001 I joined the E.P. Clivia One night's Club and became very interested after learning catch in more about Clivia. summer Recently I decided to track the origin of my produces this Clivia. My neighbour unfortunately passed away quantity of in the meantime and his wife moved away from bugs and flies. Port Elizabeth. I eventually traced her and was You just told that the original mother plant was a gift to change the her husband by his nephew Ernst Pike, originally water. It is from Hamburg in the Eastern Cape. battery and After much searching I found Ernst who told me electrically that his parents operated the Wesley Trading operated. Store on their farm Hercules about 5km from I will have my Hamburg. He further explained that the original show at Clivia mother plant was in fact removed, during Wiliston again 1965, from a cliff above the Umtana River where on the 1 5 it grew amongst some C. nobilis plants. It was September. All planted in a shady spot in their garden and soon money raised made numerous suckers, which were shared goes to our with family and friends. Hospice. Let's

Since receiving my plant it has multiplied into a hope I can bush of 50 plants flowering in abundance each promote Clivia year. Of interest is the variety of peach, light a little more. orange, yellow - green, orange and yellow - I thank and welcome you as new Editor. ▼ green with reds spotted berries it produces. Last Jeanne Marten year I harvested some 509 seeds and apart from No 17 Greenwattle Street, Tawoomba 4350, making some donations, am presently nursing Queensland Australia 400 seedlings.

Having pollinated last season's flowers with Dear Jeanne

Vico yellow, variegated, red, etc. Many thanks for the good wishes. It is heart­ I am eagerly awaiting the forthcoming har­ warming to hear of Clivia enthusiasts using their vesting season. ▼ hobby for a good cause. Good luck to your enterprise. Herman Schoeman Tel (041) 360-6252 Editor James Backhouse Author of all the mercies I enjoyed. One of his engagements was a mission with his ames Backhouse, born in Darlington, Eng­ friend, George Washington Walker, to Australia, land on 8 August 1794, the fourth child of Mauritius and the Cape Colony, sailing for J James Backhouse, a banker at Darlington, and Australia with Walker on 3 September 1831 Mary Dearman, of Thorne, was to become re­ being primarily for preaching to colonists and nowned as a Quaker minister and missionary, convicts, and of visiting penal settlements, nurseryman and botanist. In November 1822 gaols, schools and other public institutions to he married Deborah Lowe (1827), daughter of suggest improvements and to promote tempe­ the Rev. Richard Lowe, of Worcester. They had rance. Leaving his two children and his business three children. in the hands of his brother, they stayed there for As a child he showed a great interest in religious the next six years. matters, and in later life, after attending a They spent the first three years (1832-34) in Van Quaker (Society of Friends) boarding-school at Diemen's Land (Tasmania) proceeding to New Leeds, he became assistant to two Friends at South Wales (1835-37) and Backhouse sent a Darlington in a grocery, drug and chemical busi­ valuable herbarium of inland species to Kew ness. For reasons of health he spent the summers gardens. After a return visit to Hobart in 1837, farming, during which time he studied botany, they left at the end of the year and, after visits helped by relations well versed in various bran­ to Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, left for ches of natural history - a great-uncle, Stephen Mauritius in February 1838. Robson, who had published a British flora on After a three-months stay on this island they Linnaean lines in 1777, and his uncle, Edward sailed in the schooner Olivia for Cape Town, Robson, known as an enthusiastic botanist. entering Table Bay on 27 June 1838. They set In these early years, he and his son, James, fre­ out on their journey into the interior by ox- quently visited Teesdale, west of Darlington, wagon on 27 September 1838. During two and with its limestone and alpine flora, and made a half years in the country, they travelled 6 000 certain botanical discoveries. It was his love of miles [~10 000 km) in the interior of the botany that led him to gardening. He went to colony, visiting the various mission stations, learn his business at Norwich, staying there for Backhouse also taking a keen interest in the about two years, and making the acquaintance indigenous vegetation. The route covered was of Sir William Hooker, with whom he sometimes as follows: Swellendam, Grootvadersbosch, the went botanizing. In partnership with his brother Little Karoo ('Kannaland'), Riversdale, Mossel Thomas, he took over the well-established Bay, George, Knysna, Plettenberg Bay, Essen- nursery business of J. and G. Telford at York, this bosch, Bethelsdorp, Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage, being the start of the Backhouse Nurseries, Grahamstown and Fort Beaufort. They left their renowned as suppliers of alpine plants, and in ox-wagon on the banks of the Kat River and Clivia circles, for the introduction of the Clivia departed for Kaffraria on horseback. They miniata as a horticultural plant in England in travelled beyond Butterworth, by way of King 1854. William's Town and Bethel. Then they returned Though by profession a nurseryman and seeds­ to the Cape Colony, picking up their ox wagon man, he felt called to devote his life to the at the Kat River. On their return journey, which ministry, noting that: took over a year, they visited Bechuanaland, In the study of Botany, as well as in other things, Basutoland, Griqualand West and Little and I found it necessary to keep 'to the limitations of Great Namaqualand. the Spirit of Truth,' lest these things should gain They reached Cape Town on 11 May 1840, an undue place in my mind, and become as James sailing for England on 9 December, idols, drawing my attention from that love and arriving in London on 15 February 1841. service to God, which was needful to my In England he kept in touch with the colonies, growth in grace, and due from me to the sent books to Africa and raised money for Robert Moffat's Tswana translation of the Bible. flowers, was first identified and named, it He published two accounts on his journeys, A formed part of a batch of plants received from narrative of a visit to the Australian colonies the Backhouse Nurseries at York; the bulbs had (London, 1843) and A narrative of a visit to the originally been collected near rivers such as the Mauritius and South Africa (London, 1844), Keiskamma, in the eastern Cape, although the which give full accounts of his activities, name of the collector is unknown. Backhouse experiences and observations and include collected fungi in 1838 in the Albany Division; etchings and wood-cuts by his second cousin, in the Cape peninsula he went on several Edward Backhouse. excursions with Harvey. His Narrative is also important from an ethnographical point of Although he writes in his introduction "The view, as it gives detailed information on the way descriptions in this volume do not, however, of life and the customs of various tribes, and an pretend to much scientific nicety; they are eye-witness account of the freeing of the slaves rather designed to give, in few words, general in Hankey. ideas of the objects described," his second Narrative (1844) contains countless botanical Continuing his business in York, with his son, records. The plants are given their scientific James, who was also a gifted naturalist, names, with, often, their common names. Backhouse travelled extensively in England on These notes on trees and shrubs, succulents and botanical expeditions, and paid three visits to bulbous plants in great variety, orchids and Norway in connection with his religious work. many other plants, give a vivid picture of the He wrote tracts and short lives of prominent vegetation of the various regions visited. The Quaker associates, and published a biography etchings illustrating the work include a plate (with Charles Tylor) of his companion in showing the camel-thorn/with the nests of Australia and South Africa: The life and labours weaver birds and community finches, and other of George Washington Walker {London, 1862). depictions of South African plant life. His writings display his sense of humour, genial good nature and practical sense. Backhouse Backhouse was also interested in South African was an agreeable companion, plain of dress, fauna, various mammals, birds, reptiles and with no pretensions, a strict Quaker in his daily insects being mentioned in his book. His conduct, but tolerant towards all, and one with contributions to the knowledge of the flora are the marked gift of moving with friendly ease based entirely on his own observations as a field among all conditions of men. botanist. He had an herbarium of Australian, but not, unfortunately, of South African plants. He died 20 January 1869 at his home, Holdgate He, however, became the joint author, with W. House, in York. ▼ H. Harvey, botanist and colonial treasurer, of a [Extracted, edited and expanded from South African genus of the Iridaceae: K[arstens], M[ia] C. 1968. Backhouse, James in Schizostylis. When the widely-distributed type De Kock, W. J. (Editor-in-chief). Dictionary of soecies. S. coccinea. with its showv crimson South African Biography. Pretoria: HSRC.]

Ian Coates were most generous, as now, with their seeds and advice. As with most home amateur growers an Coates is well known to the Clivia in a frosty climate, space is limited but I manage enthusiasts web group, where he keeps to grow on about 400 plants always looking for regular correspondence and places his I that one which in my eyes will be special. If only photos. He is official photographer to Her Royal I could have bred that cover picture. Hopefully, it Highness, Princess Anne. He provided the will have some interesting progeny. following potted autobiography: I could go on!" ▼ "I started with Clivia in 1965 with a large tub of orange C. miniata. Specialist growers were diffi­ [Readers will have the opportunity to hear and cult to find in those days but those I could find meet Ian at the 2006 Conference - Ed.] Front Cover Photo For the record, I think it was last year that I have sold some seeds to James Abel who had Florid White Lips arranged a group-order for some South African Clivia enthusiasts. Dirk Lootens of ID'flor of the Floreac Group We have been producing clivias since the late seventies and early eighties. As we are a professional company that is producing clivias in larger quantities, it is our aim to produce and market these new Clivia colours and to make some profit on that. It seems however that only enthusiasts are willing to buy (and pay) for these new colours. Are there any ideas that could help marketing smaller quantities of these selected plants? You can find some general information of our company: http://group.floreac.com/. If you click on the "ID'flor" logo, then you will go to the ID'Flor website were you can find some more information on the production entities of the Floreac group. [I was alerted to it by Di Smith of New Zealand. Ian Coates bought this plant from a local Back cover Photo nursery in England, who were reticent with information as to its origins, although gave the Cameron Peach - name of the town and country A Google search a brief history led me to Jim Shields in the USA as a supplier of plants from a Belgian nursery and on enguiry, Mike Christie. Photo supplied by Sean Chubb referred me to Dirk Lootens in Belgium for this hirty years ago, I, Michael Christie, bought story Such is the international spread of our a farm outside Nelspruit in the Eastern circle of Clivia enthusiasts!- Ed.] TTransvaal, now Mpumalanga. The farm t all started around 1985, when the first Clivia had its own micro-climate being some 450 plant grown by our company ID'Flor of the meters higher than the town Nelspruit. My dear IFloreac group that showed colourless areas in friend Cameron McOnie and I decided to start a the petals was selected for further breeding. subtropical nursery growing avocados, litchis This plant came out of our own production, as and peaches. Cameron was the scientist and far as I know we had never bought any plants researcher, and suggested to me that we should previously from abroad. add Clivia to our growing lines. He found a We still have this plant. We used it to make source of supply of Belgian seed which we numerous crossings and eventually after a purchased (approximately 2000) and then number of generations we came up with crosses that are now "almost" 100 % White Lips. Indeed, a few years ago we gave the offspring that shows this kind of flowers the name Clivia "Florid White Lips". It must be said that some crosses are showing 100% white lips however not always as beautiful as the one on the photo. Is it right that this kind of coloration is inter­ nationally known as "Ghost"? I met with Sean Chubb who undertook to sell as much of the collection as he could, which he did in 2005. However I still had quite a number of Cameron Peach mother stock, which Sean will be selling on my behalf during 2006. It has taken the Cameron Peach a long time to evolve and now after 25 years, I believe the Cameron Peach is in its prime and in a league of its own. Future owners no doubt will improve on the original plant found in Tipperary Nursery in Nelspruit. propagated. From the original seed we created Back cover illustration I two areas of mother stock, one under shade in built-up beds and the other under trees and Clivia gardenii var. citrina amongst rocks near the house. We also added Artist - Sibonelo Chiliza (SANBI) C. miniata seed from Kirstenbosch and Nelspruit ellow forms of two species of Clivia Botanical Gardens and we had C. caulescens described at varietal level. Watson (1899) from Sabie, C. nobilis and some C. gardenii plants from the Nelspruit Botanical Gardens. Y described the sporadic yellow-flowered form of C. miniata as a variety, namely C. All these plants were planted in close proximity miniata var. citrina, a name that has been widely and grown as mother stock. The plants were adopted. This precedent has led to the formal open pollinated mainly by a swarm of honey naming of yellow forms of two other species, bees living nearby. We collected and planted the namely C. gardenii and C. robusta as varieties. seed to grow on as flowering stock for sale to nurseries. When the plants were in flower we The holotype of C. gardenii var. citrina was would check the different colours. The flowering collected in Ngome Forest (Ngotshe District, KwaZulu-Natal) on 22 June 2002. Visits to the plants were both Belgian Hybrids and C. miniata. forest confirmed previous reports of a strong About 25 years ago we noticed the first Cameron population of lemon- or pale yellow-flowered Peach amongst the Belgian hybrids. We grew the C. gardenii, with the occasional pastel or plant on in the hot house and planted all the orange-flowered individual, at this locality. Ngome seed of which a large percentage bred true to Forest is part of the Ntendeka Wilderness Area type. Today there is a slight variation in the and the yellow-flowered plants are all confined Cameron Peaches both in slight colour changes to this protected area. The population is healthy and flower form. A specially selected seedling with a high percentage of plants producing with exceptional beauty is named Cheryl Apricot, flowers and seed. Hopefully the relative in­ being a slightly darker shade of Peach Apricot. accessibility of the plants would ensure the Twelve years ago I sold my farm in Nelspruit and survival of the population as it provides some moved to Cape Town. I bought a small holding protection against illegal plant collecting. at Groen Rivier Estates some twenty kilometers The conservation status of the new variety from Malmesbury, put up shade houses and located on Table Mountain near Pietermaritz­ moved about half of the Nelspruit collection to burg collected from there in 1949 is unknown the Cape. We grew the Cameron Peaches on for as no additional herbarium specimens of this mother stock whilst selling Belgian hybrids and taxon have since been collected. C. miniata to nurseries and chain stores. The rest of the farm was allotted to the raising of Leather Extracted and edited from Swanevelder, ZH, Van Leaf fern and Aspidistra for cut foliage greens; Wyk, AE and Truter, JT. 2005 A new variety of the genus Clivia (In Bothalia, Vo! 35, 1. pp The Clivia line of propagation was a long 67-68. process and not very profitable. In 2005 I decided to get rid of the entire collection. Clivia robusta is confined to the Pondoland Centre Through the Clivia Society and John Winter of Endemism, South Africa. Plants occur as iso- lated populations distributed mainly from Port St Back cover illustration 2 Johns (Eastern Cape), through to Port Edward (KwaZulu-Natal), with a few outliers as far north Dweller in the mist as Oribi Gorge, usually closely associated with Clivia x nimbicola - natural swamps or seepage areas in Swamp Forests. In the description of Clivia robusta, Murray et al. hybrid in the genus Clivia (2004) noted that yellow-flowered individuals Artist - Magda Nel (UP) are rarely encountered in this species, and that he epithet nimbicola means 'dweller in the sporadic occurrences of yellow-flowered forms mist1, and refers to the mist belt habitat in are preferably named at forma level. However, which this hybrid and its putative parents are following the precedent of Watson (1899) in T found. Clivia x nimbicola is intermediate between relegating the yellow form of C. miniata to Clivia caulescens and Clivia miniata with regards varietal level, the same is proposed for the to rhizome, leaf, umbel and flower morphology. yellow form of C. robusta. The holotype of Flower colour ranges from pastel orange to pastel C. robusta var. citrina was collected in an area pink, with green tepal apices in some specimens. known as Maringo Flats, located ± 20 km in­ Flowering is erratic, occurring all year round, main­ land from Port Edward on the KwaZulu-Natal ly from July through to December, with some south coast. A single yellow-flowered specimen specimens flowering twice yearly-February to was collected at the time, but more than one May. This long flowering period connects the yellow individual was observed. flowering periods of the two putative parents in The habitat at the type locality is typical for the Bearded Man Mountain locality, namely Octo- Clivia robusta, in this case, a swamp-like area ber-November in C. miniata and October-Decem- with forest covering ± 2 ha. Most of the C. ber in C. caulescens. The extended flowering period robusta population grows as dense stands in of C. x nimbicola is regarded as further evidence very heavy mud on a stream bank. The type in support of the taxon's hybrid origin. The formal specimen was growing in a silt deposit on the description of C. x nimbicola is also supported by side of the stream that runs through the forest the observation that the hybrid plants bear berries on its way to the Umtamvuna River. in the wild, thereby inferring fertility and the Associated forest species include Strelitzia possibility to maintain populations by means of nicolai, Protorhus longifolia, Erythrina caffra, subsequent breeding among hybrid plants. Macaranga capensis, Voacanga thouarsii, The holotype of Clivia x nimbicola was collected Syzygium cordatum, Phoenix redinata, Zante- on the Bearded Man Mountain near Barberton, deschia aethiopica and Cyathea dregei. on the border between South Africa and Swazi­ Even though Clivia robusta is present in a land. In this area these natural hybrids are quite number of conservation areas throughout its common (50 or more individuals) in sympatric range, the distribution of individual populations stands of C. miniata and C. caulescens. Judging is very localized due to the species' specialised by plant sizes and the height of aerial stems, origi­ habitat requirements (Swanevelder 2003). In nal hybrids are as old as their putative parents. this particular case, even the inhospitable Toppled plants with long aerial stems, from either marshy habitat does not prevent the removal of parentage of hybrid, freely produce suckers when plants by traditional healers and illegal plant in contact with the soil. Seedlings, when present, collectors; it does, however, restrain the com­ were usually distributed around its putative plete removal of whole populations. All known parent. The natural distribution range of C. x plants of C. robusta var. citrina occur on private nimbicola is confined to the Barberton Centre of land and enjoy the protection of the current Endemism, the only known region in which the landowner. distribution ranges of C. caulescens and C. Extracted and edited from Swanevelder, ZH, miniata overlap. ▼ Forbes-Hardinge, A, Truter, JT and Van Wyk, Extracted and edited from Swanevelder, ZH, AE. 2006. A new variety of Clivia robusta. In TruterJT and Van Wyk, AE. 2006. A new variety Bothalia 36, 1. pp 66-68. of Clivia robusta. In Bothalia 36:1. pp. 77-80. Di Smith what clothes to wear. Many a day, I put on a weird collection and combination of outerwear. "How Clivia Saved My Life" Towards the end of my 3 months rehabilitation and with a huge improvement behind me, one any years ago, when life was a hectic of the therapists carefully told me that I would pace of a 50 hour working week as prac­ have to consider a change of lifestyle - a more Mtice manager for a chartered accounting sedate pace of life with a change of career. Per­ firm, 3 teenage children, after school activities haps find a passion that would replace my career. and community work, a client once said to me, This was a huge shock! How could I change? "have you ever taken the time to stop and smell What would I do? What if I never recovered? the roses?" I laughed at him and said, "Oh no, life I went home that day devastated. As my partner is too busy, perhaps one day, when I have the pulled into the driveway, I noticed a large num­ time." That day hit me most unexpectedly and ber of orange flowers out in bloom. The after­ abruptly, like a ton of bricks, one morning while noon sun was shining on them and they had I was sitting in a Court room in 2002. It was caught my eye with their vividness against their during an extremely harrowing divorce case that dark green leaves. I had no idea what the plants I suddenly fell ill. I was taken to hospital, with were. I went upstairs and turned on my com­ one side of my body paralysed from a stroke, puter to 'Google' and find out what the flowers aphasia and my brain a complete blank. I was 47 were. Clivia miniata! I was blown away with their years old. Apparently this was my second stroke, beauty, form and artistry. I spent hours and hours much different from the first which I had ig­ searching the internet for information, hooked nored. Stress, was the cause. up with a few people to find out more about Stress? Stress had been a part of my life for years these amazing plants. I literally fell in love with - that's what kept me going! them and they had me - hook, line and sinker. I That day I thought my life had ended. I no longer had found the passion that the therapist told me had a career, I couldn't articulate or understand to hunt for. This was totally outside my square. I the spoken word, I couldn't read, write, walk with­ had never liked (and still don't) gardening. I don't out assistance, perform any of the normal day to particularly like 'twee pretty' flowers. Clivia had a day functions, housework, driving, knitting, structure, a presence that had grabbed me. gardening, sewing etc. Noise, even white noise, Interestingly, there was a local Clivia show in was unbearable. For 3 months I worked hard, October 2002 and a NZ Club was formed in daily at a local Rehabilitation Centre - occupa­ March 2003. I nervously offered my services as tional therapy, physiotherapy, group workshops, secretary. For some reason, I still couldn't hand- speech therapy, psychology. It was frightening to write, but I had never lost my ability to type. find out that if I had been 69 or over, I would not For two more years I continued with speech and have been accepted, but left to my own devices. reading comprehension therapy. My therapist, Dogged determination and attitude was the force Kate is now an expert on Clivia! As I couldn't behind my recovering as soon as possible. process or read the information I was finding, I Many of the pathways to my brain had been needed her to assist me. So each weekly session scrambled. It was frustrating at times trying to was on Clivia - hybridising, pest control, taxo­ get words out, not being able to form the sounds nomy, etc. Kate is very good! and deliver what I was trying to say. I fell over all One day, someone came to visit me and I the time from lack of stability, couldn't tell the mentioned that the large clump of Clivia on the difference between hot and cold (how many front lawn were a magnificent display when times did I get in the shower and forget to turn blooming. The visitor said to me, 'oh those are just on the cold tap? - my son said, I had the 'hottest' rubbish Clivia, nothing special at all.' I was boobs in town! - literally), cut myself with the devastated - how could they call a plant that had paring knife many times, dropped things, cried saved my life and given me a passion be called and swore with frustration. I couldn't remember rubbish? That day, the New Zealand common orange was honoured and named ]C. crappiata'l miswired receptors. A South African friend, who Today, 4 years on, my passion for Clivia hasn't took the time (and still does) to brief me on the diminished. I enjoy hybridising, caring for the Clivia Society Year Books, another couple who plants, communicating with other enthusiasts. I proofed (and continue to do so) many of the have even given a few talks to local horticulture articles written for the Club's Newsletter - for groups, mainly to groups who are senior or them and others, I will be forever grateful. disabled, on the value of Clivia in the garden or I will never be 100% well again. What used to in a pot. We are very fortunate to have superb take me 10 minutes, now takes an hour. growing Clivia conditions here in Auckland. Tiredness is a big problem, but one learns to I have especially learnt to appreciate people, adjust. However, Clivias are marvellous and especially those who take the time to be patient forgiving plants, they just keep growing and and teach the basics of Clivia cultivation. So multiplying until I have the energy to spray, dig, many people forget their own beginnings and divide, pollinate and water. One thing is certain, sadly feel the basics are now below them passing I will never lose my passion and love for Clivia. onto others. I value my Clivia friends, the tole­ What more could a girl wish for? ▼ rance they showed when my brain was a mass of Di Smith

Q & A The question as to what book to buy: Un­ fortunately I am not impartial in this matter. Hi, I think "Cultivation of Clivias" published last year I recently landscaped my yard in California and by the Clivia Society is good value for the money I have several Clivia miniata which were spent. The book was aimed at beginners and blooming last year. As the plants are beginning does address some aspects which may help you to bloom this year the foliage is looking poor. to solve your problem. Photographs may help in Many of the leaves are yellow and turning identifying the problem. ▼ brown. Should I feed these plants more? I live in Santa Clara County and we rarely get freezing Kind regards, weather. Also, what book would you recommend Lena van der Merwe on the care of Clivias! Please let me know. ▼ [email protected] Thanks Chris [email protected] Pollen mentoring of non-selfing plants Hi Chris, [On an inquiry as to the low rate of selfing of Have you inspected the roots of the plants? A C. robusta plants, Sean Chubb suggested that cause of browning of the leaves may be too the pollen of the plant be mixed in with pollen compact potting soil resulting in not enough of any other lily-like plant. He forwarded the oxygen at root level or too wet at root level. Over following text, which I have attempted to put in time coarse potting soil may decompose forming layman's terms - Ed.] too compact potting soil resulting in unhealthy roots leading to browning of the leaves starting Richards, in his book Plant breeding systems from the leaf tips. This may also be a fertilizer (1986) identifies various means of breaking problem. If the roots are unhealthy no nutrients down "gametophytic incompatibility", or, in the can be absorbed resulting in leaf die-back. What parlance of Clivia breeders, an inability of a plant if you give foliar feeding? If the roots are compr­ to be 'selfed'. omised, then the leaves may still absorb nutrien- The technique discussed by him and used by ts. I suggest you do a little investigating. Sean Chubb is the so-called "mentoring effect". Other causes may be nematodes. The question This is the induction of self-compatibility in in­ will be from where do they originate? Nema­ compatible pollen by mixing that pollen with todes do not move further than about one foreign pollen, in the case of Clivias that of another meter from origin. species of the order . It is presumed that a diffusible substance from the non-functional biologically controlled separation of organs, in this compatible mentoring pollen overcomes the in­ case corona from ovary) inhibiting auxin (a plant compatibility inherent in the selfed pollen. The hormone). The effect is indirect in that it allows effect seems to indicate the breakdown in time of the incompatible pollen tube sufficient time to an active oppositional system. It is speculated reach the ovule, thus pre-empting abscission and that what is exchanged is an abscission (that is a allowing for fertilisation (pp. 213-4). ▼

Clivia Cultivar Checklist and Registration

Kenneth R Smith - International Registrar for the genus Clivia

fficial registrations came in slowly during buted from a local centre. They may or may not be 2005.1 am not sure why, but I wonder if formally named. The origin and history is all im­ Othe prospect of having to fill out the regi­ portant, coupled with a clear description, so that stration application form is too daunting? Is it other growers, often worldwide, have something because clear images are required? Maybe the to base their growing and breeding decisions plant description is too hard to write? Is the new on. I am referring to vegetative divisions here. plant unique and distinct from other existing Clivia? With each new seed list - and they are in­ The only two applications received were for creasing each year - there seems to be many plants of Hugh Bollinger in the US, namely more "named" plants listed. Some are familiar 'Godzilla', a huge flower form with an interesting names, to me at least, yet some are completely history, and 'Cameron's Candy', a choice plant new. To many they will mean nothing, and it is resulting from Sean Chubb seed ['Joy' X 'Roly's going to be valuable to enthusiasts to have a Chiffon'] planted in 2000. To Hugh Bollinger, Lila checklist with comprehensive details about the Bishop and Cameron Sandrock, thank you. Clivia showing up on the marketplace. Whilst the listing of names has increased I get the impression that many people still think rapidly, it only represents a history lesson and I that a seedling from a named Clivia is then the continue to urge enthusiasts to formally apply named Clivia. This is wrong in the majority of for name registration. Links are available on cases. If the seed is from a developed seed line, many Clivia websites. Articles have been printed then yes, the seedling or seedlings will show in many newsletters and Yearbooks. My website certain characteristics. If the seed if from the is http://cliviasmith.idx.com.au/ crossing of two named Clivia, then it just results In the past, clubs have indicated a willingness to in a seedling carrying the genes from two Clivia. help in this registration matter. I would like to Certainly the grower may be rewarded with again make a formal request, through this AGM some beautiful plants, but it is the name, and forum, that clubs and interest groups encourage the perception that that name brings, that is discussion about the "named" Clivias that their wrong when it is then applied to that seedling. members have growing in their collections. I hope you see that what I want to happen is Perhaps it can be part of the regular meetings or the compilation of a detailed listing of known it could be done as a workshop event? Clivia for the use of enthusiasts worldwide. My My aim is to get as much information about the research is ongoing and I shall continue to write forms we grow. What better way than to have up what I can, but I really need more help from the originators and growers of these plants the wider community of Clivia enthusiasts. discussing them. Remember, the naming of The Clivia Society is committed to producing cultivars is a voluntary exercise, and the wider high quality publications for the benefit of all the dissemination of factual information, the enthusiasts. A fund has been allocated for the better for all concerned. checklist publication. Let's make it as complete Invariably these cultivars originate and are distri­ as possible, please. ▼ Bing Wiese

Chris Vlok - Chairperson of the Clivia Society was privileged to visit Bing for the last time six days Ibefore he passed away on Saturday 17th June. Typical of the humble man he was, he diplomatically declined us writing a story about Bing Wiese for Clivia News. However, he did say he would write a last article on his preference to line breeding of Clivia. Unfortunately, his time ran out - much sooner than expected. Those of you who have known Bing personally will understand why it will be so inappropriate to now praise the character and Clivia collection of the man we admired, loved, trusted, respected and to whom we could turn for advice - be it Clivia related or even personal. However, I will pay tribute in an indirect manner. Over the years I referred many Clivia lovers to Bing when they sought a really special plant or expert advice. It is amazing how many of these people actually made a point of thanking me afterwards for introducing them to Bing Wiese. It is sad to loose a friend like Bing but strangely the feeling of gratitude to have had him as a friend and mentor overwhelms the sense of lost. ▼

Glynn Middlewick - Chairperson, Joburg Clivia Club I was informed of the sad news of the passing of Bing Wiese on Saturday evening. About two weeks ago we learnt that Bing realised that his "tyd was op". I understand he was admitted to hospital on Wednesday of the week preceding his death. Chris Vlok informed me that his entire collection had been sold a week prior to his passing. On behalf of the Joburg Clivia Club we would like to convey our condolences to his wife and family on their sad loss. Many of us visited Bing in Pretoria to admire his collection. He was well known for his line breeding of quality Clivia. Much of his practical advice can be found in the book "Hints on growing Clivia". ▼ Sir Peter Smithers John van der Linde ir Peter Smithers, breeder of the famous "Vico Yellow" Clivia, died at home, in his garden, at Vico Morcote, SSwitzerland on Thursday 8 June. He was 92 and, from the beginning, was a member of the Clivia Society and its predecessor, the Clivia Club. We know him for his Clivia, but he was a remarkable highly talented all-rounder - refer to the profile of him that I wrote for the Quarterly Newsletter of the Clivia Society (Volume 13 no 1, Autumn 2004). What I did not know was that he had provided the inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond! You can read his full obituary that appeared in the London Daily Telegraph on 11 June, online by Googling Telegraph Obituaries'. Other obituaries and tributes will no doubt appear soon. With the permission of David Brundell of the NZ Clivia Club, I attach a photo that he took of Sir Peter when he visited him last year. Many years ago, when David first visited Sir Peter, he gave him an offset of "Vico Yellow", which David has subsequently used in his breeding to develop a stunning range of yellows. I conclude with the last paragraph of Sir Peter's obituary. These are his own words: "It would be nice to end life surrounded by the beauty which is my garden... As long as memory lasts my garden will remain with me, like my own past life, a delightful dream which I once dreamed here on this mountainside". ▼ The Heritage Clivia Collection

Sean Chubb have for many years attempted to trace the gave me a plant of Vico Yellow, which had been origins of many clones of Clivia particularly grown from tissue culture (the first Clivia, I the colour mutations originating from the think, to be successfully grown from tissue wild habitats. It has become evident to me that culture). But being a purest I did not only want much of the history surrounding these clones this plant in the Heritage Collection but also has been lost or distorted. I, under the guide of wanted an offset of the original Smithers plant. Fred van Niekerk, came up with the idea of I am very happy to say that not without con­ including all my plants with historical value into siderable effort by Clivia friends I now have a what I call today my Heritage collection. The mature original offset in the collection.

main objective, which I have in mind, is to con­ Habitat plants, which are extraordinary and very serve as much of the history of the clones in the rare. Such as the colour mutations found in the collection. These clones would then be docu­ wild including yellow, peach, pink and varie­ mented and conserved as a living collection of gated. Also habitat plants which are specially plants with some historical significance. selected and particularly interesting.

The collection essentially differs from the living An example of one such clone would be collections of the South African National Bio­ Alpha Thurston, a yellow of exceptional beauty diversity Institute in that this collection also collected in the wild. includes non-habitat plants and only allows for All species of Clivia should be represented in this specially selected plants from habitat. collection and plant like the original Clivia robusta WHAT QUALIFIES A PLANT TO BECOME collected in the wild by Mr. Len Chiazzari in PART OF THIS COLLECTION? 1943 is also part of the collection. Clivia are strange plants in that they have become This would also include the colour mutations of family heirlooms to many families. Some of these the pendulous species as well as variegated heirlooms can be traced back for generations. A plants. The naturally occurring interspecific good example of such a plant is the plant named hybrids would also qualify in this category. Elsie Grobler, which dates back to the 1880's Plants, which have been the flagship plants for and is featured in the Clivia book by Harold prominent breeders and collectors, may also Koopowitz. Thanks to the generous donation by qualify to be part of the collection. An example Henriette Stroh the Heritage collection now has a of a plant like this is Lady of Oribi Gorge, which plant of this clone represented. was the flagship plant of the late Ammie Grobler. Plants, which have played a significant role in Not only was it Ammie's flagship plant but it is the genetic makeup of Clivia grown today., also a stunning habitat plant with known locality. A very good example of one such plant is Vico I am thankful that Ammie entrusted me with one Yellow. In 1988 Yoshi Nakamura very kindly of these plants for the collection. WHO OWNS THE COLLECTION AND ▼ Curators of the heritage collections should HOW SHOULD IT BE MANAGED? ensure to the best of their knowledge that the information on a particular plant is As far as the ownership of the collection goes at correct and complete. this stage it is in my hands but I envisage that a ▼ All plants belonging to the heritage group of similarly minded people would form a collection should be properly labeled and group all having a collection and offsets be their history well documented and pre­ traded amongst the group. served. The collections of the group would be ▼ Accurate records should be kept on the documented and in the case of somebody heritage plants and their movements well leaving the group the group of Heritage documented. collectors would have first option on the ▼ The Heritage collections should be made heritage plants. This would ensure that the available for the viewing of interested heritage plants would always be in the hands of Society members and other interested people who would preserve them and their parties. history for future generations. Thus far all the The collection over time will hopefully bring plants in the Heritage collection have been more clarity to the histories of our heritage donated to be, exchanged for other plants or Clivia clones. The origins of these special clones purchased by myself. would be clearer and hopefully be preserved for ▼ Members of the heritage collection group prosperity. should ensure that plant material together Thus far I have had a number of KZN Clivia Club with the relevant history is passed on to members interested in participating in the group. others. Anybody else interested in being part of this ▼ Every effort should be made to have the Heritage group is welcome to contact me. ▼ plant in its original form in the collection, and not "this may be a seedling of the Sean Chubb original plant". Thurlow Flora, ▼ Only specially selected habitat plants with Eston South Africa accurate habitat identification should be [email protected] allowed in the collection. Tel/Fax +27 031 781197 The Clivia Society and training of judges. (3) Receive from the judging committees of Judging Committee - affiliated organisations all nominations for new candidates forjudge, notification of new where are we now? students accepted into the judging commit­ tees training programs and changes in the Roger Dixon status of current judges, and, after a review of (A report submitted to the meeting of the Inter­ the judging committees recommendations, national Clivia Group Meeting: 18 June 2006) make its independent recommendations to he Judging Committee of the Clivia Society the Clivia Society. Additionally, and with the was originally formed in 2002 as the "Com­ approval of the Clivia Society, the JC may Tmittee on Standards and Judging" to initiate any action it deems necessary for the address the need for a document containing proper and ethical administration of the standards and regulations governing not only the judging system. showing and judging of plants, but also the (4) Be responsible for maintaining a current list training and qualification of judges. This docu­ of judges. ment was meant to serve as a basis for (5) Through its Convenor, be responsible for the the development of a comprehensive set of day-to-day interpretation of judging rules. definitions, standards, rules and regulations (6) Make recommendations to the Clivia Society governing the judging of Clivia. At the time, the with regard to the future development of Clivia Society considered it essential that we the Clivia Society judging system. establish flexible and broad guidelines. (7) Be responsible, under the direction of the An initial draft document, the "Handbook on Clivia Society, for the periodic revision, at Judging, Showing and Registration", was com­ least once every five years, of the Handbook. piled in 2003 utilising material used by Clivia (8) Provide guidance and assistance to Clubs/ Clubs and drawing on other plant organisation Societies/lnterest Groups upon request in all documentation. This was distributed, but the matters relating to the topics in the general consensus was that the whole process Handbook. should be approached piece by piece. According­ At the meeting it was agreed that in order to ly, in 2004 a document outlining basic terminolo­ achieve our objectives, we would need to be gy and standards to use in describing Clivia was descriptive, not prescriptive. The Handbook distributed. The Clivia Society is also the inter­ would be used as a guide, with the flexibility to national registrar for named Clivia plants. allow parties to innovate to find the best It has taken some time to produce this "compre­ practical implementations. The Handbook is to hensive set of definitions, standards, rules and be a work in progress, a living document, with regulations", but the process is much further on parties to interpret, apply and provide feedback, the way to completion now than four years ago. utilising the process as a learning experience for It is gratifying to note the formation of more and all involved. more Clivia organisations around the world, and It was also agreed that we need to make a start the fact that a lot of these organisations have with certification and registration process and used the draft documents in one form or the database, updating our existing show software other for show and judging purposes. to incorporate this. In order to identify what is At the meeting of the JC and other interested a good Clivia, we need to document as many parties in George of 20th May 2006, it was "good" plants as possible over the next year or agreed that ultimately the duties of the JC two, in order to determine criteria upon which would be to: we can establish a grading system. This would (1) Supervise the Clivia Society judging system be implemented at all shows, with at least all under the direction of the Clivia Society. the 1st prize plants at our annual shows (2) Establish uniform standards for the acceptance starting 2006 being documented according to a standard recording sheet which will be available Award Judging shortly. Some of the spin-offs of such a system will be to enhance the naming and registration Henriette Stroh of plants with a measure of how good they livia flowers are short-lived and best or actually are. most rewarding specimens often miss It has become very obvious, over the last few C shows. Due to our fluctuating climates years, that much confusion and misunder­ from year to year, growers often express the fact standing abounds in the description of Clivia, that their flowers were either too late or too especially with regard to questions such as: early for a show. Also, with the increasing ▼ Which plants are closest to the ideal? amount of hybridising occurring, plants are ▼ Who's plant is the best? flowering at many different times of the year. ▼ How do I vouch for a plant's quality? Award Judging is a system designed to accom­ modate those unfortunate owners of plants In the Western world, where we concentrate whose plants bloomed before or after their local more on the bloom, we have these problems. In show. The idea is to to have these judged at China, however, where more attention is paid to relevant times, at arranged judging sessions. Plants the foliage, there is an established quality can be judged for gold, silver or bronze awards, standard and rating. similar to present show judging procedures. As far as the training and certification of judges Show Judging compares the merits of several is concerned, a training curriculum for prospec­ entries entered in a specific class standing to­ tive judges needs to be drawn up with stan­ gether on the show bench, at the same time. dards for qualification set in order to qualify as In order to be fully qualified as a judge at shows, a Clivia Society Accredited Judge. Initially, all it is important that Clivia judges have a thorough affiliated clubs will submit names of those judges knowledge of the range of Clivias from all over, who they consider to be of a sufficient standard not just those that they are familiar with locally. to qualify as an Accredited Judge. These names This is achieved by award judging. will be submitted to the Convenor of the JC by The difference with award judging is that the the end of July 2006. Thereafter, judges will be judges only have the required photographs, trained and qualified according to the curri­ correct measurements and descriptions, to culum and criteria developed in the Handbook. assist them in their judging task of individually The JC is composed of a Convenor, a Deputy submitted plants out of show dates, against a Convenor, a Registrar and nominated repre- register of similarly recorded and judged plants. sentative/s of Clivia Clubs/Societies/Interest Before we can implement such a proposed Groups. The committee is renewed annually at award judging system, we need complete and the CS AGM. In addition, the Chair of each accurate records for several years. Judging Committee of affiliated Societies/Clubs To elevate awards granted at Club level, the shall, by virtue of their office, be participatory ideal situation should be to ratify these awards voting members of the JC. Meetings of the JC at the annual CS AGM (Judges Committee shall be held regularly, at least annually prior to Meeting). This will also serve the purpose of the AGM, and preferably at all national or equalising standards at a national and/or international events. international level and enhancing the education The Judging Committee for 2006/7 includes the and training value to participating judges. following members: Roger Dixon (SA), Convenor: Rules and regulations regulating this proposed Henriette Stroh (SA), Registrar; Johan Schoom- judging practice, will require the input of a bee (SA), Deputy Convenor; Mick Dower (SA), number of participating clubs and judging Gearaldine Vermaak (SA), Tony Barnes (NZ), Jim committees, to succeed and function properly. Black (USA), Andre Calitz (SA), Wimpie Maas The Northern Clivia Club Judges Committee has (SA), Sean Chubb (SA), Ian Coates (UK), Koos committed itself to start measuring and com­ Geldenhuys (SA), Keith Hammett (NZ), Mickey piling the required records as set out in the Hoctor (SA), Kevin Larsen (AU), Ken Smith (AU), derivation sheet. This will be their contribution Aart van Voorst (NL). ▼ to implement meaningful judging standards. ▼ Clivia 2006

The good news ber 2006. Our treasurer, Bossie de Kock, has kindly offered to purchase stamps on behalf e have recently received correspondence of our overseas members who cannot attend from China which indicates that up to the Conference. Please contact Bossie by fifteen delegates, mainly from the W e-mail at [email protected] Chang Chun region in NE China will attend the or by fax (at +27 12 804 8892) for more conference. detail and to order. An electronic version of ▼ To overcome language barriers we have had the order form can be downloaded from to look at the provision of interpreters. www.cliviasociety.org - click on Clivia 2006, The CSIR International Conference Centre is then on memorabilia and lastly on Clivia fully equipped with regard to interpretation stamps. facilities, and we have negotiated an ▼ The Caulescens tour has been fully booked. excellent deal way below their normal con­ Should there be sufficient additional requests ference rates. Bottom line - the conference for visits to Caulescens habitats, we will see will now take place at the CSIR International whether we can arrange a supplementary Conference Centre and no longer at the tour. A small number of seats are still Council for Geoscience. available for the three habitat tours in ▼ As the Chinese delegation will only be in KwaZulu-Natal. Please urgently contact South Africa for six full days, James Abel and James Abel at [email protected] or Roger Fisher (our Public Relations Officer) are +27-12-361 6406 to enquire about avail­ working on a tailor-made package of tours ability. and visits for our friends from China. ▼ We are glad that plants for the auction ▼ The deadline for the lower registration fee were entered from across the world. The (R350.00) has been published as 30 June. 60 selected plants will be visible at Since we doubt that our overseas members www.cliviasociety. org by early July. will receive this newsletter and reminder ▼ A session giving delegates the opportunity before 30th June, the organising committee to say what their needs are regarding the has decided that the lower registration fee relationships between various Clivia organi­ will be applicable until 15 July. For your sations around the world and the flora that convenience a registration form has been are available for communicating Clivia news inserted in this newsletter. Please register! and information with each other is being At the AGM, during informal discussions, it was planned for Thursday 7th September. There pointed out that the hotel accommodation in will also be a discussion session on standards Pretoria (as listed on the website) might be rather and judging. expensive for South Africans and particularly ▼ One of the major attractions of the Clivia members of other clubs that wish to attend the conference will be the opportunity of conference. Budget accommodation is available meeting many enthusiasts from other parts from some B&Bs, and please note that the Protea of South Africa and overseas. Although Hatfield Apartments has a rate of only R260 there will be lots of time to make new sharing (bed only but breakfast can be had at friends and meet old ones, exchange Mimmos downstairs). Please share your specific experiences and generally enjoy the came- needs with Sure Travel (eunicevr.travelstudio@ raderie, in our experience there will always galileosa.co.za or +27-12-362 1806). be a need for more (has anyone ever run dry ▼ The order form on page 19 (part A) reflects on the subject of clivias?)! The evening of the prices (at post office counters) of the set Thursday 7th is free, and we have decided of Clivia stamps to be released on 6 Septem­ to facilitate a get-together that evening. ORDER FORM FOR CLIVIA STAMPS PART A: To be released in September 2006 Item number Reference number Description Unit price* Number required Price A 1 PHL061868 Stamp Set (Mint) R11.10 B 2 PHL061869 Stamp Set (Cancelled) R11.10 C 3 PHL061870 Control Block (Mint) R11.10 D 4 PHL061871 Control Block (Cancelled) R11.10 E 5 PHL061872 Full Sheet (Mint) R11.10 F 6 PHL061873 Full Sheet (Cancelled) R11.10 G 7 PHL061874 First Day Cover 7.110 R14.10 * excluding postage Subtotal: Part A

PART B: Other stamps and related material. Please note that Sakkie Nel is constantly sourcing additional stamp sets. Please confirm availability with Sakkie at [email protected] or +27 12 361 6415 before you place your order with Bossie. We have not yet been successful to source and price items 16 and 18 to 21. Your contact person is Sakkie. Item Description Number Unit Number Price number available** price* required 8 Venda/Sibasa (12c) First Day Cover 1.23.1 2 R25.00 9 Venda (12c) Block of 4 stamps - mint 12 R20.00 10 Venda (12c) Single stamp mint 59 R5.00 11 Ciskei set (4 Stamps - of which one is a Clivia.) 16 R10.00 12 Ciskei Control Blocks of 4 (16 stamps - of which four are Clivias)8 R40.00 13 Ciskei/ Keiskammahoek - FDC 1.25 2 R15.00 14 Ciskei - Philatelic Foundation Miniature Sheet 50c - Mint 2 R15.00 15 Ciskei - Philatelic Foundation Miniature Sheet 50c - Used 2 R16.00 16 Ciskei - Philatelic Foundation FDC - C3 (50c - Vlei Lily) Being sourced ? 17 The South African Philatelist - June 2006. Contains Clivia on stamps article. 15 R25.00 18 China - Set of 4 stamps, mint Being sourced 7 19 China - Set of 4 stamps, used Being sourced ? 20 Western Sahara - Single stamp, Mint Being sourced 7 21 Western Sahara - Single stamp, used Being sourced ? Subtotal: Part B Overseas airmail: R25.00 Addresses in South Africa: R9.00 Postage Total: Parts A and B + postage

* excluding postage ** You will notice that only limited numbers are available of the items listed in part B of the order form. However, Sakkie Nel is doing his best to source more items. He would appreciate it if you can help sourcing Japanese (with Yoshi Nakamura tab), Northern Korean and Australian (with Clivia tab) stamps at reasonable prices to sell at the conference.

Also note the following: 1. Although items 1, 3 and 5 have different reference numbers they are exactly the same. The same applies to items 2, 4 and 6. 2. Only orders received by 15th August will be accepted. 3. Payment can be made into the following ABSA Bank Account: Account name: Clivia Conference; Account number: 4062072518 4. Payment by means of a credit card: In order to process credit card transactions, Bossie requires the information listed below.

Card type Card Number Expiry date (month and year) Last 3 digits on back of card (CVC number)

Name of card holder (as printed on the card)

5. Proof of payment to be forwarded to Bossie de Kock at [email protected] ot fax to +27 12 804 8892. Inca siatu/cj

Customer Services: Tel: (012) 845 2814/15 *1 Post Office Fax (012) 804 6745 • Address: Private Bag X! ia, 0001 * [email protected] We deliver, whatever it takes. Places have been reserved at two great Hein Grebe (South Africa) - A photographic Pretoria restaurants which are close to each expedition to the mirabilis populations of the other in the same complex in Lynnwood Western Cape Ridge, Pretoria East. Both have menus with a Johan Spies (South Africa) - Genetic aspects of wide range of dishes, with John Dory Clivia breeding leaning towards seafood and Steakout A Rashid Qureshi (USA) - Plant Genetics towards meat. Through the first day of the Aart van Voorst (Netherlands) - Ploidy research conference, Wednesday 6th, there will be in Clivia - an update with new results displays at the auditorium prepared by the Helen Marriott (Australia) - Nakamura's two restaurants, describing their fare. Dele­ contribution to Clivia breeding gates who wish to dine there will be able to enter their names on lists at the information Tony Barnes (New Zealand) - Clivias in New desk, on a first-come first-served basis. Zealand At the end of the Wednesday we will inform Rudo Lotter (South Africa) - Colour in Clivia the restaurants of the tables reserved for the Sean Chubb (South Africa) - A practical Thursday night. Participants will order as approach to colour breeding in Clivia miniata they wish from the menu that evening, and Victor Murillo (USA) - Breeding the Victorian the person in whose name the table has Peach been reserved will be responsible for settling Joe Dana (USA) - His collection and pollen the bill on behalf of the rest of the table banking as an aid to breeding occupants. Roger Fisher (South Africa) - The seeing hand - ▼ There should be sufficient room for everyone the genus Clivia depicted interested, but if you and your friends are Ian Coates (UK) - Photography: For the already sure of your preferences between Record... for Science and... for Display the two (remember that it is a case of Ken Smith (Australia) - Registration of Clivia emphasis only, with a wide variety at both), and wish to be absolutely sure of your The full program will be published soon on reservations, you are welcome to contact me www.cliviasociety.org. for an early listing. Queries are welcome. The not so good news We are looking forward to having an excellent evening together. Your contact person is James The organising committee will recommend that Abel. Contact details are: tel +27 12 361 6406, the South African based club that proportio­ cell +27 72 116 2672, [email protected] nally has the smallest number of registrations by ▼ A range of very interesting talks presented by 1 5 July 2006, will be asked to organise Clivia speakers from all over the world has been 2010. compiled for the conference. Taking place over two days, the talks have been selected The bad news for the variety they cover as well as the infor­ If you do not register on or before 15 July you will mation they contain. We look at Clivia in habi­ have to pay the late registration fee of R425.00. ▼ tat, in the laboratory, in collections and in art. The speakers and their talks are as follows: Clivia 2006 Organising Committee

A note on the Journal Bothalia

Bothalia is named in honour of General Louis Botha, first Premier and Minister of Agriculture of the Union of South Africa. This house journal of the South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, is devoted to the furtherance of botanical science. The main fields covered are taxonomy, ecology, anatomy and cytology. Two parts of the journal and an index to contents, authors and subjects are published annually. See www.nbi.ac.za/pub. ▼ CLIVIA SOCIETY Reflections on the Annual General Meeting: 20 May 2006

From the Chairperson, Chris Vlok

e had a most wonderful weekend in The publication Cultivation of Clivias' showed a George. Gerrie Britz and the commit­ very welcome net profit of R31 564. It was Wtee members of the Garden Route Clivia agreed that an amount of just over R 26 283-00 Club can really be proud of the arrangements be transferred to the Research and Conservation they have put in place, the excellent food they Fund. As regards research we now have funds provided, and the wonderful hospitality we all in excess of R70 000. The research committee enjoyed. There was plenty of opportunity (chairman: Prof Johan Spies, Mick Dower, Gerrie during the weekend to share ideas and stories Britz and Liannes Robbertse) will be asked to about Clivia. I was also great to have one of our submit proposals regarding research to be Interest Groups (Border Interest Group repre­ funded by the Clivia Society. Any ideas from you sented by John Roderick) present at the meeting. as club members and Clivia enthusiasts will be I trust that more Interest Groups will accept the welcomed. Please contact Prof Spies at +27 51 - invitation when we meet in Bloemfontein in 2007. 451 1886 or [email protected].

I was particularly pleased with the positive After an intense discussion the treasurer's attitude and spirit of cooperation shown by all proposal to increase South African membership representatives. Yes, we sometimes had diffe­ fees from R80 to R100 was accepted. It was rent points of view but the Annual General also agreed that the registration fees for Clivia Meeting and the meeting of the Standards and Enthusiasts should stay unchanged. Judging Committee took place in a very positive A decision was taken that the membership lists spirit. It is so good to know that our clubs are that have been freely distributed in the past will indeed in the capable hands of likeable persons. in future only be made available on request. It The management committee (Chris Vlok, John was also decided to only list the names and van der Linde, Ken Smith, Lena van der Merwe contact details of those Clivia enthusiasts and (secretary) and Bossie de Kock (Treasurer) was members of Constituent Clivia Clubs who have unanimously re-elected. Please see the inside given permission that their names and contact front and inside back cover for the names of details be distributed amongst Clivia enthusiasts representatives of clubs and Clivia enthusiast. and members of Constituent Clivia Club who re­ The Society has had a successful financial year quire such a consolidated list to communicate with a net operating income of R27 470. Mem­ Clivia specific news and announcements. The bership numbers showed an increase of 156. lists will definitely not be made available to commercial organisations. Your cooperation in this matter will be much appreciated. Clivia Enthusiasts are requested to mail of fax an indi­ cation of their preference (Yes, include or No, do not include) to the Clivia Society Secretary (or your representative). Club members in South Africa should do so via their club or member­ ship secretary.

The upcoming Clivia 2006 conference is a prestigious event that offers a platform to acknowledge outstanding contributions to the advancement of Clivia. I must confess that the guidelines (e.g. who qualifies, the number of awards and the nomination procedure are not state of affairs. During the past year our yet in place. Please give it some thought and youngest clubs, namely the Joburg, Free State contact you representative should you have a and Garden Route Clivia Clubs, proved that they specific person in mind. I should perhaps add deserved full club status. The role of interest that the proposal tabled at the Annual General groups in spreading the Clivia message should Meeting suggested that a recipient of the not be underestimated. Sterling work is done award (perhaps in the form of a framed by the Overberg, Northern KwaZulu-Natal, certificate issued by the Clivia Society) need not Border, Boslelie, Zoutpansberg and Welkom be a Clivia enthusiast (as defined in the Interest Groups. constitution) or a member of a club affiliated to We are fortunate to have people of the calibre the Clivia Society. of Ken Smith in Australia, Jim Black in the USA, Should you be interested in receiving electronic Di Smith in New Zealand and Dr Hamish Sloan copies of all the reports and documentation in the UK to take care of the registration of that have been tabled at the Annual General members on our behalf. Meeting, please contact your representative or The current representatives of Clivia Enthusiasts myself at [email protected]. I suggest that club were all available for another term. Their representatives circulate the bound docu­ opinions on Clivia matters are highly regarded mentation that Lena has prepared so profes­ and the Society therefore re-appointed Aart van sionally at their next club meeting. The idea is Voorst (Europe), Ken Smith (Australia), Tony also to publish the constitution and all docu­ Barnes (New Zealand), Jim Black (USA) anpf Dr mentation relevant to the Annual General Hamish Sloan (UK). On behalf of the Clivia Meeting on www.cliviasociety.org. Society I wish to thank these gentlemen for their service during the past year. Extracts from some of the Roger Fisher deserves a round of applause for submitted reports the fresh look of and the new approach to the Editor of the Yearbook: John van der Linde content of our quarterly newsletter. I'm really The Yearbook will NOT be distributed until impressed and grateful for what Roger has immediately after the Conference. achieved in a short period of time. The contri­ Editor of Clivia News: Roger Fisher butions of Bossie de Kock and Lena van der Merwe in assisting with proofreading and I realised that it would be sensible to have the distribution of the newsletters are also title internationally registered so as to protect it acknowledged. and give the publication a broader credibility. Upon writing this report the only nomination This was done through the auspices of the received for the position of Public Relation South African National Library and 'Clivia News' Officer was that of Roger Fisher - strange how will in future bear an ISSN number With the people who already carry a heavy workload new format arose the possibility of publishing in manage to take on even more responsibilities. colour, apparently at little extra cost. If this I'm confident that Roger has the make-up to practise is continued it should also enhance the efficiently manage two portfolios but I want to contents and appearance of the magazine. plead to you as representatives of clubs as well I strongly suggest that the magazine be as our individual members to give Roger the published online under a password protected necessary support. Club chairpersons, when last domain for members on the Society's web page. did you encourage your members to contribute Chairperson's report: Chris Vlok to the newsletter? The reports received from clubs based in South Our previous Yearbook, Clivia 7, again exceeded Africa reflect that the Clivia movement is all expectations. The Yearbook is the most thriving. Thank you to the management of important display window of the vibrancy of clubs and all their members that work behind our Society and we are so fortunate to have the scene for their contribution to a healthy such a formidable team in John van der Linde, Claude Felbert and Roger Dixon taking care of hear leading personalities of the Clivia fraternity the Yearbook. Thank you to Claude for making negative comments about other clubs organising the photographic competition and or individuals. I decided to comment on this all of our members out there who have because one of the representatives who is new contributed to Yearbooks 7 and 8 by submitting to the Clivia Society recently wrote to me photographs and articles. Please do so again in enquiring whether I share his perception that future. there is pointedness in some of the remarks often heard or what he reads in e-mails. I want Our stocks of Yearbooks 1 and 5 are depleted. to appeal to all of you as well as to individual Reprinting is very expensive and a further dilemma is that no electronic copies of Year­ club members to please remember that we need each other. I'm not saying one should not books 1 to 4 exist. These older yearbooks are still in demand and we should seek mechanisms be critical but please do so in a responsible to make it available. Some two years ago Lena manner without trying to put others in a bad light just to proof a point. van der Merwe had organised for Yearbooks to be scanned electronically. Recently Neil Nathan I regard the members of all clubs in South Africa of Free State Clivia Club also scanned Yearbook and all the individual Clivia Enthusiasts as the 2 by using more sophisticated software. It members of our Clivia Society. I also appears that we will be able to publish the older acknowledge that I have stated in the past that versions on CD or DVD without too much effort. individual members of clubs are strictly speaking not members of the Clivia Society. The year 2006 is special. Thanks to the efforts of the Northern Clivia Club, the Post Office has Why do I say that? Let me explain and ask you agreed to issue a set of Clivia stamps. In as representatives, appointed by your club, to take home the following message - I have September the Northern Clivia Club will be hosting the fourth quadrennial Clivia confe­ reason to ask you to do so. rence of its kind. Peter Lambert will give a The Society is not structured, neither admini­ comprehensive status report on Clivia 2006 - stratively geared (in terms of staff and financial my job is to inform you that I was privileged to resources), to deal with individual membership. attend the meetings of the organising commit­ The constitution is federal in nature and makes tee and that I am very confident that we can provision for clubs to be represented on the look forward to a well organised and interesting Clivia Society by their appointed representatives. conference of which the organisers and the The Clivia Society has no say whatsoever as to Society can afterwards be proud of. who is elected or appointed by individual club The International Clivia Group (representatives members as club representatives. It is the function of club representatives to voice the from all Clivia organisations and clubs in South desires, requests and points of view of the Africa) has requested a meeting to coincide with Clivia2006. One of the points on the majority view of club members at meetings of the Clivia Society. It is also the responsibility of agenda will deal with the future of the Clivia representatives to give feedback to their clubs. movement and especially the Clivia Society. It The constitution stipulates that the Society shall was agreed that each Clivia body (including consist of and have as members: individual clubs) should be represented (maximum of three representatives per club) at ▼ Representatives of the constituent Clivia Clubs; the meeting. I suspect that contentious issues ▼ A representative or representatives of Clivia might be raised e.g. the formation of an enthusiasts outside the Republic of South International Clivia Society (either a new body Africa; or a transformed Clivia Society). We need to ▼ Flonorary Life Members (with no voting rights); exchange ideas about this - not necessarily at ▼ A chair and a vice-chair; the AGM - to know what stance the Clivia ▼ An additional member e.g. the outgoing Society should take. chair of the Society or Chair or a person Food for thought. All is not rosy. Frequently I elected at the Annual General Meeting from amongst the members of the constituent the work that has been done by Roger Dixon, Clivia Clubs or the Clivia enthusiasts. Peter Lambert and judges of the Northern Clivia I don't believe that we who are involved with Club in the weeks prior to the Annual General the Clivia Society are spending our energy and Meeting. The Cape Clivia Club has produced an time solely for the benefit of a body (the Clivia Access database aimed at show administration Society) of approximately 20 persons. No, we - this software will be shared with clubs when (and I include the persons who are responsible finalised. for the yearbook, the newsletter, the mainte­ For the record: Roger Dixon and Johan nance of the website, the organisation of an Schoombee were elected as convenor and international Clivia conference etc.) do what we deputy convenor respectively of the Standards do for the benefit of the entire Clivia fraternity and Judging committee. Henriettte Stroh will - especially the members at grass roots level. act as registrar. We have also decided that non- If you or the majority of your club members do affiliated Clivia organisations and persons with not agree with this state of affairs please use known expertise should be invited to participate. the mechanisms that are in place and come Clivia Society sub-committees forward with constructive proposals as remedy The following persons were prepared to serve to a perception that individual persons are unhappy about not being full members of the you on Clivia Society sub-committees. The names of the portfolio managers have been Clivia Society and do not receive real benefits from the Clivia Society. Perhaps management printed in bold. should address this issue in collaboration with PUBLIC RELATIONS: Roger Fisher, the person involved with Public Relations. Gideon Botha It is not always easy to marry the demands of a YEARBOOK: John van der Linde, Roger Dixon, full time job and being chairman of a society Claude Felbert managed and run by volunteers. Fortunately I CLIVIA NEWS: Roger Fisher, Cynthia le Roux, can always rely on the moral support and Bossie de Kock, Lena van der Merwe friendship of and the encouragement from the REGISTRAR OF THE GENUS CLIVIA: Ken Smith, other members of the Management Committee Wimpie Maass, Peter Lambert, Mick Dower being John van der Linde, Ken Smith and the two stalwarts, Bossie de Kock and Lena van der RESEARCH: Johan Spies, Mick Dower, Merwe. It would not have been possible to Gerrie Britz, Prof Hannes Robbertse operate without them. I'm looking forward to CLIVIA SOCIETY WEBSITE: Chris Vlok, the continued support of management and the Roger Dixon, Johan Schoombee, Dries Olivier, cooperation of clubs and their representatives Riel Lotter and Owen Fletcher in 2006/2007 which I believe is my last term, as STANDARDS AND JUDGING: Roger Dixon (SA), chairperson of the Clivia Society. Johan Schoombee (SA), Henriette Stroh (SA), Mick Dower (SA), Mickey Hoctor (SA), Andre Reflections on the meeting of the Standards Calitz (SA), Wimpie Maass (SA), Sean Chubb and Judging Committee (SA), Koos Geldenhuys (SA), Geraldine At some stage you might have thought that the Vermaak (SA), Jim Black (USA), Ken Smith Standards and Judging Committee is doomed (AU), Kevin Larsen (AU), Keith Hammett (NZ), for failure. I'm confident that we are back on Ian Coates (UK), Aart van Voorst (NL), Tony track. It was so good to have a large number of Barnes (NZ) and some other persons from role players in one room debating issues. For me other Societies who still need to be the outcome of this meeting (please see Roger approached. ▼ Dixon's report) was the highlight of Saturday 20th May. Thank you to all the attendees and Chris Vlok A Saharawi Clivia from Saskatchewan for Yoshikazu Nakamura

James Abel

he last issue (Jan - Mar 2006) of the Clivia very familiar with Canada to truly appreciate Society's Clivia News has a contribution by that", and it is indeed difficult to think of two TSakki Nel that discusses the current nine places that differ more in climate than the Clivia stamps (China 4, South Africa 2, Korea 1, source of this stamp and its country of origin. Saharawi 1, Japan 1) shown on the back page Linda bought it and has very kindly sent this and the six new South African ones to be issued stamp to us as a gift to Yoshikazu, and it has in September. Our possession of the seven been forwarded to him. It was franked in overseas stamps is due to the kindness of Saharawi ["Sahara Occidental"] on 01-11-94, Yoshikazu Nakamura who attended the confe­ the year of issue and by co-incidence, as rences in 1994 and 1998, and who sub­ pointed out by Linda, the year of that first Clivia sequently sent us the stamps. conference held in Pretoria.

The Saharawi stamp was particularly interesting If anyone else finds any more please let us because of the country concerned. Saharawi is know. ▼ in north-west Africa and, since the withdrawal of Spain some forty years ago, it has been torn in the struggle between its citizens, Mauritania and Morocco. This conflict is little understood Jaws down here at the other end of the continent but it was fascinating to know that Clivia Helen Sanders miniata had been honoured so far from home, in such a harsh climate, and presumably as one of a series on African flowers. It was a reproduction and not the stamp itself that was shown and Yoshikazu requested help in finding a specimen. We are not philatelists, and were unable to help Yoshikazu in his quest.

Then in early 2006 the Clivia Society, as part of its challenge to make 2006 and its September conference a Clivia year to remember, was instrumental in persuading the South African postal authorities to issue the series of six Clivia stamps to coincide with the conference. To let potential delegates know about this great news, we posted a scan of the eight stamps that feature Clivia flowers.

Shortly thereafter, we were delighted to hear from Linda Foulis, an e-mail friend from Okotoks in Canada who is both a Clivia enthusiast and a philatelist, that she had found a Saharawi. In her own words "It is coming MINNIES CRIES For HELP WEREWtoWNCP from a shop in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, of all places. I think you would have to OUT W THE THEME MUSIC FROM tTAVSS. ADVERTISEMENTS point out that it is difficult to quote a fixed price without knowing the method of payment Tariffs for advertising in the Clivia Society and delivery. Newsletter: We suggest you contact Bossie de Kock Smalls (1 to 6 lines): R25.00 (the treasurer) via e-mail at: bossiedekock@ Smalls (7 to 10 lines): R30.00 absamail.co.za or by fax at +27 12 804 8892 Quarter page: R70.00 and list the items you are interested in as well Half page: R125.00 as the name of the country in which you reside. Full Page: R250.00 Bossie would then be in a position to suggest A5 separate page insert: R600.00 the most economical option. Australian, UK, A4 separate page insert: R800.00 New Zealand and USA members are reminded (You will be sent an account from the treasurer that they can order via Ken Smith, Dr Hamish for the appropriate amount.) Sloan, Di Smith and James Black respectively - FROM THE CLIVIA SOCIETY see inner back pages for contact details. Overseas members can order back volume Also note that further discounts can be nego­ copies of the Yearbooks and Newsletters (since tiated with Bossie for orders exceeding 10 of a 1992) via the society. South African members specific item. The items listed in the table are should approach their local branches. We must available. ▼

Item Approximate price (US $)*

Yearbook 7 15 Yearbook 6 15 Yearbook 5 out of stock Yearbook 4 10 Yearbook 3 out of stock Yearbook 2 10 Yearbook 1 out of stock Cultivation of Clivias 15 Volumes 1(1992) to 11 (2002) of newsletters 10 per volume

Set of volumes 1 to 10 available on request

^Including postage and banking charges if paid by credit card. Contact Bossie de Kock for quotation re payments made by cheque.

PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS Swamp gardenii and miniata seed and seed­ lings available from various Natal and Transkei Clivia species, interspecifics and specialties. locations. Phone Andrew (039) 313 5024 a/h or Participate in our coordinated imports and ex­ cell 082 784 5401. ports of seeds and plants - Asia, ANZ, N. Am. & Thurlow Flora: We have on offer a large variety Eu. Connie Abel, Pretoria, +27-12-361 6406 or of carefully bred seedlings and mature plants [email protected] for sale. We specialise in pastel colours, Yellow Nogqaza strains from R15 to R120. oddities, species and original wild collected and Orange from R1 to R6 for mature plants. Delivery named clones of Clivia. Mail order and visitors anywhere. SOUTH AFRICAN CLIVIA PLANTATION, welcome. Box 855, Hilton 3245. Call 082 955 5433. For our latest plant list please contact Sean Clivia miniata. Seed R100 per kilogram. Year old and Terri Chubb. Tel: 031 781 1978 e-mail: plants R2 each. Roly Strachan, Box 5, Highflats [email protected]. We also have available a 3306 or Tel. (039) 835 0085 evenings only. few hundred different named daylily clones. ▼ ▼ Tony Barnes Ngamamaku, 1521 Sur f Highway 45, R.D.4 New Plymouth, 4061 New Zealand. Tel: 64-6-752 7873; e-mail: tony.john@x tra.co.nz ▼ Ken Smith 593 Hawkesbury Rd., Winmalee, NSW 2777, Australia. Tel: +61 2 47543287; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Aart van Voorst Frederick Hendriklaan 49, Hillegom, TE 2181, Netherlands Tel: +31 252529679; email: [email protected] ▼ James Black 10606 North 166th East Ave., Owasso, OK 74055 USA Tel: 918 272-4623; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Dr Hamish Sloan 40 Wendan Road, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 7AF, England, UK Tel: 044 1635 47417; e-mail: [email protected]

▼ New Zealand Di Smith, 71 Taylor Road, Mangere Bridge, Auckland, New Zealand Tel: (09) 634 6807 or 021 231 9200; NZ Clivia Club e-mail: [email protected]; personal e-mail: [email protected]

▼ Cape Clivia Club Joy Woodward (Secretary). PO Box 53219, Kenilworth 7745 Tel: 021 799 8768, Fax: 021 761 4687, Cell: 072 487 7933; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Eastern Province Clivia Club Andre Calitz (Chairperson) Tel: 082- 574 9058 (h) 041-367 4476 e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Free State Clivia Club Hennie van der Mescht (Chairperson), 18 Mettam Street, Fichardt Park, Bloemfontein, 9322. Tel: +27 51 522 9530; Fax +27 51 436 4340; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Garden Route Clivia Club Gerrie Brits (Chairperson). Tel: +27 44 8746233 a/h Fax: +27 44 8707550 Cell: 082 921 7963; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Joburg Clivia Club Glynn Middlewick (Chairperson). 2 Willow Road, Northcliff, 2195 Tel: +27 11 476 1463; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ KwaZulu-Natal Clivia Club Sean Chubb (Chairperson). Thurlow Farm, PO Box 126, Eston, 3740 Tel & Fax: +27 31 781 1978; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Northern Clivia Club Lena van der Merwe (Secretary). PO Box 74868, Lynnwood Ridge, 0040 Tel & Fax: +27 12 804 8892; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Waterberg Boslelieklub An Jacobs. PO Box 3893, Nylstroom, 0510 Tel & Fax: +27 14 717 3674; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Border Interest Group John Roderick. PO Box 2429, Beacon Bay, 5205. Tel: +27 82 567 7069; Fax: 0866124473; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Lowveld Interest Group Ian Radmore (Secretary). PO Box 1146, White River, 1240 Tel: +27 13 751 2051; e-mail: ian@nelvet1 .agric.za ▼ Northern KZN Hottie Human (Chairperson). PO Box 20244, Newcastle, 2940 Tel: +27 34 3181327 or +27 82 290 6332; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Overberg Clivia Felicity Weeden. PO Box 1468, Hermanus,7200 Interest Group Tel: + 27 28 Group. 316 3092 e-mail: [email protected] or Caroline Phipps Tel: + 27 73 221 5267 or Cell: 028 341 0014 ▼ Welkom Interest Group Louis Chadinha (Chairperson). PO Box 2204, Welkom, 9460 Tel: 057 3576067; e-mail: [email protected] ▼ Zoutpansberg Enthusiasts Anneke Stroebel (Secretary). PO Box 1712, Louis Trichardt, 0920 Tel: +27 83 326 6073. Fax: +27 1 5 516 5710; e-mail: [email protected]

ISSN 1819-1460

& QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER OF THE CLIVIA SOCIETY &

VOLUME 15 NUMBER 3 & JULY - SEPTEMBER 2006 THE OBJECTIVES OF THE CLIVIA SOCIETY 1. To coordinate the interests, activities and objectives of constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; 2. To participate in nature conservation activities in relation to the protection and conservation of the genus Clivia in its natural habitat, to promote the genus Clivia and in that context also to promote the observation of conservation laws and practices; 3. To promote the cultivation, conservation and improvement of the genus Clivia by 3.1 the exchange and mutual dissemination of information amongst Constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; 3.2 where possible, the mutual exchange of plants, seed and pollen amongst Constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; and 3.3 the mutual distribution of specialised knowledge and expertise amongst Constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; 4. To promote the progress of and increase in knowledge of the genus Clivia and to advance it by enabling research to be done and by the accumulation of data and dissemination thereof amongst Constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; 5. To promote interest in and knowledge of the genus Clivia amongst the general public; and 6. To do all such things as may be necessary and appropriate for the promotion of the abovementioned objectivs.

CLIVIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS & CHAIRMAN Chris Vlok PO Box 99583, Garsfontein 0060 Tel H +27 12 998 5942 e-mail: [email protected] & VICE-CHAIRMAN John van der Linde 1 Wheelan Str., Newlands, 7700 Tel & Fax +27 21 671 4535 e-mail: [email protected] & SECRETARY Lena van der Merwe PO Box 74868, Lynnwood Ridge, 0040 Tel & Fax +27 12 804 8892 e-mail: [email protected] & TREASURER Bossie de Kock PO Box 38539, Garsfontein, 0042 Tel +27 12 807 2173 e-mail: [email protected] & OFFICE BEARER Ken Smith 593 Hawkesbury Rd., Winmalee, NSW 2777, Tel +61 2 47543287 Australia. e-mail: [email protected]

REPRESENTATIVES OF CONSTITUENT CLIVIA CLUBS & Cape Claude Felbert, Gerrit van Wyk and Johan Schoombee & Eastern Province André Calitz, Willie le Roux and Wimpie Maas & Northern Lena van der Merwe, Peter Lambert and Bossie de Kock & KwaZulu-Natal Sean Chubb and Liz Boyd & Free State Hennie van der Mescht & Garden Route Gerrie Brits & Joburg Glynn Middlewick and Koos Geldenhuys CLIVIA NEWS & VOLUME 15 NUMBER 3 & JULY - SEPTEMBER 2006 Table of Contents

& CLIVIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE- AND CONSTITUENT MEMBERS Inner Front Cover & EDITORIAL - Roger Fisher 2 & CORRESPONDENCE 3 & NAMES & THE GENUS Clivia Robert Allen Dyer 4 & PEOPLE BEHIND THE PLANTS - Gill Condy 6 & STORIES BEHIND THE COVERS Front Cover 7 Back cover 8 & TRIBUTE Mentor and friend remembered - "Oom" Frans Gerber 8 & CLIVIA 2006: SPEAKERS & TOPICS 11 Tony Barnes - Clivias in New Zealand 11 Sean Chubb - A practical approach to colour breeding in Clivia miniata 11 Ian Coates - Photography: for the record... for science and… for display 12 Joe Dana - The Joe Dana Clivia Collection 12 Roger Fisher - The seeing hand - the genus Clivia depicted 17 Hein Grebe - A photographic expedition to the mirabilis populations of the Western Cape 17 Rudo Lötter - Colour in Clivia 18 Helen Marriott - Nakamura’s contribution to Clivia breeding 18 Victor Murillo - Breeding the Victorian Peach 19 Ken Smith - Registration of Clivia 19 Johan Spies - Genetic aspects of Clivia breeding 20 John van der Linde - Some clivias and the men who found them 20 Aart van Voorst - Ploidy research in Clivia - an update with new results 21 A Rashid Qureshi - Plant Genetics 21 Song Xueguan - Clivia in China 21 & GROWERS A BREEDERS NOTES Q's & A's 23 & RED RUBY GLITTER & CLIVIANA Cinderellas − Stamps with Clivia Tabs - Sakkie Nel 26 & CLIVI-ARTA Conference Eagerness - Helen Sanders 28 & REPRESENTATIVES OF CLUBS & ENTHUSIASTS CONTACT DETAILS Inner Back Cover

The Clivia Society Newsletter started as a black on white newssheet dated July 1992, numbered Volume 1 number 1, called 'Clivia Club'. It formed a means of communication for people interested in the plant genus Clivia. It was edited/written by Nick Primich with a frequency of 3, 5, 8 & 5 during the 1st 4 years, using the publication month in the volume. The frequency was fixed on 4 with vol. 5 # 1 of March 1996. The date changed to the Southern Hemisphere seasons with vol. 8 # 1 of Autumn 1999. The 1st three used yellow paper as cover. The name changed to 'CLIVIA CLUB NEWSLETTER' with vol. 9 # 1 Autumn 2000 with full colour photos on the cover pages. Another name change to 'CLIVIA SOCIETY NEWSLETTER' came with vol. 10 # 4 Summer 2000, and in 2005 reverted to a quarterly number. CLIVIA NEWS is the continuation of this series.

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EDITORIAL It is a red-letter day. This Clivia 2006 issue of Clivia News coincides with your arrival at the fourth quadrennial Clivia Conference. That is if you are here. If you are not here and have received this by mail we hope it gives a glimpse of the scope of the proceedings, and a twinge of envy at what you have missed. You are fortunate in that four years of preparation by a team of some ten-odd dedicated persons has resulted in what promises to be a rich, varied, but − most importantly − a Clivia-saturated event. The media is on the alert and Clivia is receiving good press across a broad spectrum of the gardening, home, leisure and lifestyle media in South Africa. While on the one hand it seems an enormous amount of effort for only one-hundred-and-fifty delegates registered to date (more are expected) on the other hand the consequence is the contents of Yearbook 8 which reaches a much wider and international audience. And of course the hope is that it swells the number of members of the Clubs, widens the interest in the plants of the genus Clivia, and hence provides for a broader spectrum of hybridising. We have read in the previous Yearbook 7 that for a combination of just a few specific characteristics in a breeding programme one needs about two thousand plants to have a statistical chance of achieving that goal. It appears that each individual grower can only cope with about four hundred plants. Hence we need more enthusiasts for a broader spectrum of hybrid cultivars. And fortunately some are now starting young. In a recent meander to the Garden Route I visited the Utopia Nursery of Carrie Kruger in Sedgefield and was most ably and knowledgeably assisted by young Lucas (13) who is his mom’s right hand man. He also assures me that he is an avid reader of the Newsletter. If there are more like him out there should we not have a young enthusiasts corner? Let us hear from the younger growers – what are your interests, expectations, and ambitions for the genus Clivia? Will we still have the privilege of habitat specimens when you inherit the Clivia enterprise or will your only access to these be through the botanical and heritage collections? Which leads us to the stamp issue. Most people still believe there are only four species − at most, some think two, others one! (and I am NOT referring to lay-persons) – of the genus Clivia. While the lumper and splitter debate is inherent in the nature of taxonomists, the case can be made that, for a charismatic genus such as Clivia, splitting is to be expected. When the relegation to species is associated with a region of endemism, it still makes good sense. Although each species has a specific complement of diagnostic features, we know that none in isolation vouches for the specimen being of a particular species. That is why one needs to keep habitat populations intact, for only a specimen from habitat can, with any certainty, be ascribed to a species. The enterprise of DNA-profiling currently being undertaken at the University of the Free State may prove a useful additional tool. But with the issue of the stamps it should help fix in the popular imagination of the public that we have six species of Clivia. It is also a tidy number for the issuing of miniature sheets! Congratulations to the South African Post Office for their commitment, Gill Condy for the beauty of her artwork and Peter Lambert for driving the project. The rest is for you to enjoy, thanks to the hours of commitment of a dedicated conference team. I’ll drink to that. & Roger Fisher – EDITOR

EDITOR OF NEWSLETTER ROGER FISHER: PO Box 856, Irene, 0062, Republic of South Africa &Tel: +27 83 602 7736 or +27 12 420 2550 &Fax: +27 12 667 2406 &E-mail: [email protected] PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER ROGER FISHER: &Tel: +27 83 602 7736 or +27 12 420 2550 &Fax: +27 12 667 2406 &E-mail: [email protected] YEARBOOK EDITORIAL JOHN VAN DER LINDE: 1 Wheelan Street, Newlands, 7700 &Tel: +27 21-671 4535 &E-mail: [email protected]. DESIGN & LAYOUT Fréda van Wyk082 468 8485 &PRINTING CPD Print, Pretoria Tel: 012-342 1978/9

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WELCOME Welcome and Good Wishes from Brian Huntley, CEO of SANBI he South African National Biodiversity Rourke, then Head of the Compton Herbarium Institute, as custodians of our rich floral at Kirstenbosch, and named in recognition of Theritage, applauds the success of the Clivia the plant’s ability to withstand hot and dry Society, which, from its inception, has promoted conditions, unlike other species in the genus. Clivia and inspired enthusiasts beyond our DNA studies are presently being undertaken at borders to include the USA, UK, Europe, Japan, the Leslie Hill Molecular Systematics Laboratory China and New Zealand. at the Kirstenbosch Research Centre, which SANBI has developed a unique collection of will prove of great interest to botanists and Clivia at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden enthusiasts alike. collected from habitat over many years, by John SANBI wishes the Clivia Society every success Winter, erstwhile curator of Kirstenbosch NBG. with its 4th International Conference to be held The set of stamps introduced to commemorate in September 2006, and hopes that all overseas the 4th International Clivia Conference depict all delegates will enjoy their visit to our great the South African species. country, the home of the magnificent Clivia.& SANBI is proud to have introduced Clivia Brian Huntley – CEO: SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL mirabilis, a new species described by Dr John BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE

CORRESPONDENCE Good-day Mr Editor [Translated from the Afrikaans – Ed] In 1999 I bought a clivia out of the garden of Joeye van der Westhuizen in Nylstroom. Her husband, Oom Fanie, had died suddenly a number of years previously and she had no idea as to the origin of his clivias. After some years I noticed that a number of them had remarkable flower forms. The plants, with the good care of my husband, became prize pot-plants. One was awarded Silver on a Northern Clivia Club Show. At the Metro Show of 2005 I saw a similar bloom. If someone believes they have the same plant, do they know its origin? Where did Oom Fanie obtain his? If anyone can cast any light on this riddle it would be much appreciated. Secondly, one of my bell-like crosses had three multi-tepal flowers on its first blooming. This is from seed of my nursery planted in 2002. I have called this plant “An’s Pride 001”. Good wishes to all those busy with this years large event! I receive great enjoyment from the Newsletters. They are Beautiful!!!& An Jacobs Clivianna, Nylstroom, SA [email protected]

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NAMES & THE GENUS CLIVIA Robert Allen Dyer

r R. A. Dyer described Clivia caulescens, collected by Dr F. Z. van der Merwe from the MacMac forest margin, (Plate 891 of Volume 23 of Flowering Plants) in 1943 as a separate species. In Dthis entry is also recorded a specimen collected by E. E. Galpin (1848-1951) from Barberton in 1890 that had a stem of “12-18 inches” [300-450 mm] and placed by Baker in his Flora Capensis 6, 228 (1896-1897) with other pendulous examples from Natal and Transvaal under C. nobilis. Dr Rober Allen Dyer was born on 21 September 1900 in Pietermaritzburg. Here he did both his schooling and completed his university education, obtaining his DSc in 1937 for a botanical survey of the Grahamstown and Bathurst district, of interest to us as the habitat of the Clivia nobilis. He started employ in the sugar-fields of Zululand where he contracted malaria. In 1925 he was appointed to the Albany Museum Herbarium in Grahamstown, where he spent six productive years, including his field- work on the succulent Euphorbiae. From 1931 to 1934 he was South African Liaison Officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. On his return to South Africa he was posted to the National Herbarium, Pretoria, where, in 1944, he became Chief of the Division of Botany. He agitated for better facilities, resulting in the new headquarters building in the Botanic Gardens built in the 1970s. He retired in 1963, but remained active in the world of botany, being awarded the South African Association of Botanists first Gold Medal in 1971, as the “doyen of South African botanists”. Some interesting aspects of his personality emerge in the Obituary prepared for Veld & Flora (March 1988, pages 31-2, on which this article is based) by P. Vorster of the Clivia caulescens by department of Botany, University of Betty Connel Stellenbosch. ©SANBI

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Clivia caulescens by Cythna Letty ©SANBI

Besides his many publications, he was instrumental in obtaining subscription for those by others, including W. Reynold’s The aloes of South Africa, and Cythna Letty’s Wild flowers of the Transvaal, in which the Clivia caulescens is illustrated, as well as Auriol Batten’s Flowers of southern Africa, which has the Clivia miniata illustrated. He was tenacious when the occasion demanded it. He insisted being included as second author to Alain White in exchange for his own research towards the monograph The succulent Euphorbiae. As a person he was a patriotic South African, which created difficulties during the Second World War, as his staff held widely divergent political views. His wit showed when he named Encephalartos cupidus as record of the removal to the premises of collector himself of the almost entire known population, hence recording for posterity “a passionate desire to the extent of greed or lust”. He was a photographer, gardener – priding himself on his production of artichokes and African Marigolds, of which he hybridised the buiggest and most spectacular in Pretoria – collected the mown grass from the Botanic Gardens as bedding for his fowls, and tested many untried fruits as jellies. While not a collector of earthly goods, he had a fondness and respect for books. He died in Pretoria on 25 October 1987.&

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PEOPLE BEHIND THE PLANTS She has illustrated over 200 plates for Flowering Gill Condy Plants of Africa, contributed to various other NBI illian Condy was born in Kenya in 1952. publications and 8 plates for Curtis ‘s Botanical She was trained as a scientific illustrator Magazine. Her artwork is found in collections all Gat the Middlesex Polytechnic in London, over the world. obtaining a Masters from the Royal College of Geophytic Pelargoniums, a book she illustrated, Art in 1976. She worked in Botswana from 1978- was published in August 2001 by Umdaus Press. 1982, before taking up the position of resident She is working on two other books by the same botanical artist at the South African National author. The book on grass aloes of South Africa Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria (formerly the was published in 2006, with over 40 colour Botanical Research Institute/National Botanical plates. She was also the major contributor to Institute) in 1983, where she is still employed. the biographical section in the book Peeling Gillian has participated in over 75 group exhibi- back the Petals: SA Botanical Art, published by tions worldwide, including those of the Royal Fernwood Press in November 2001. Horticultural Society in London (7 gold, 3 silver- gilt) and the 7th International Exhibit of Botanical Gillian has organised three major workshops for Art and Illustration, Hunt Institute for Botanical botanical artists in 1990, 1998 and 2002. She is Documentation in Pittsburgh, USA. In February one of the founding members of the Botanical 2000 she was awarded a gold medal at the Artists Association of Southern Africa and is the Inaugural Kirstenbosch Exhibition of Botanical present National chairperson. She runs regular Art, a silver medal in 2002 and gold in 2004. art courses for NBI (new SANBI) and BAASA and is an active freelance artist. In 1990 Gillian was awarded the Jill Smythies Award by the Linnaean Society of London; in She was approached by the Post Office to depict 1992 the Beeld Stamp Design of the Year for the six species of the genus Clivia for the set Edible Wild Fruits of Bophuthatswana and 2nd of stamps issued in conjunction with the 4th place in 1993 for Acacia Trees. She has designed International Clivia Conference. 14 sets of stamps for Botswana Post Office. In Gillian has one son and in her spare time has May 2002 she was awarded the Cythna Letty been involved with the Scout Movement for Medal by the Botanical Society of South Africa. over twelve years.&

STORIES BEHIND THE COVERS orgive me an autobiographical note by way Clivia, I their Culture (in a socio-cultural sense). of introduction, but this issue of Clivia News To this end I made the acquaintance of Gillian Fand the Clivia 2006 Conference culminates Condy, in-house Botanical Artist to SANBI. I an episode in my Clivia life. As a neophyte wanted to find out what depictions existed and to the Clivia game and an un-rehabilitated what it would cost to have fresh depictions bibliophile I was looking for literature on done. She said she had heard rumours of the topic. Exhausted at what was available, I a set of stamps to be issued for the Clivia approached Braam van Wyk, my colleague in Conference in 2006 and did I know whether the Department of Botany at the University of an artist had been appointed, since she was Pretoria − whose book on Regions of Floristic keen to be commissioned, and − should she Endemism I greatly admire − as to whether be − would not have time for my enterprise, he’d not be interested in doing something should this transpire, and was, anyway, too tied similar but dedicated to the genus Clivia. He up finalising her contribution to the book on was far too engaged in projects of his own grass aloes. I immediately phoned Lena van der but was sympathetic. He in turn referred me to Merwe from Gill’s office to find out about the one of his students, Dirk Swanevelder, and his stamps. Well, before I had any more clarity on publisher, Briza, and a collaborative was formed the stamp matter I was saying “Yes” to being – Dirk would take care of the Nature of the considered as a candidate for editor of the

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Clivia Society Newsletter since Meg Hart had stamps but as border on the miniature sheet announced her imminent retirement. of the six species. It also appears − almost in its And I had Sibonelo Chiliza as artist with him entirety − on the bottom right hand corner of having precious little produced to prove his the A1 poster issued by the South African Post ability. Such is the nature of serendipity. Office to advertise the release of the set of six When Gill Condy was finally commissioned stamps on 6 September 2006. by the South African Post Office as artist for It was the one-time rarity of the yellow form of the Clivia stamp set the blooming season was C. miniata that fired the imagination, and it is fading for C. miniata, and long past for the probably this form that must be immortalised pendulous species. So a frantic search started in the annals of Clivia lore for making the genus for flowering specimens since Gill is averse to popular amongst gardeners, collectors, growers working from anything but living examples. and breeders of Clivia. The further cloning of a What follows is the consequence. plant of this variety from the breeding of the legendary Sir Peter Smither’s (CSNL 13:1 & Front Cover CSNL 15:2, 13) by the equally legendary Yoshi Clivia miniata var. citrina hybrid was provided by Nakamura as the Vico Yellow cultivar helped Norman Weitz (thank you Norman!) from his enhance its status as a plant of note and desire. own collection for portrayal by Gillian Condy. Clones or progeny of this form appear in the This is not used in its entirety on any of the collection of enthusiasts around the globe.

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Back Cover

Illustration 1: Clivia nobilis. The depicted plant derives from the Standerwick Nursery in the environs of Port Alfred, and is a clone from the farm where the nursery is located. The plant is representative of the forest form of the species, with thinner, ranging roots and narrower leaves than the dune forest form, which has thicker, asparagus-like buttress roots and shorter, broader leaves. The coastal form also seems to produce redder blooms than the inland forest forms, which may be indicative of different pollinators, or visibility to pollinators under differing light conditions. We remain particularly ignorant on these matters.

Illustration 2: Clivia miniata. The plant represented was a late blooming specimen in the collection of the University of Pretoria. The courtyard of what was once the Faculty of Agriculture (now the Department of Consumer Sciences) has a fine collection of what appear to be the Oribi Gorge form of C. miniata, since they are particularly large plants with fine umbels ranging from apricot to orange-red flowers, and obviously long established in their position in the garden. The plant depicted is unusual in that the colour is laid down as speckles on a white and yellow background. It has a typical ’wild’ arrangement of tepals, separate and dainty.

Illustration 3: Clivia gardenii. Gill depicts a plant from her own collection, growing in her garden, but bought years back when the Northern Clivia Club Show was held at the National Botanical Gardens, Pretoria. The peduncle is cyanin suffused, giving it a purple red hue, a characteristic found in varieties of this species, and shared with C. mirabilis. Flower colours can range from pale yellow through to purple-red (See the accompanying Auction Catalogue for some of these varieties).

Illustration 4: Clivia caulescens. The plant and flower depicted are not one. The plant is from the nursery trade in White River and is a habitat form of the Lowveld scarp. It shows the characteristic caul or stem from which the species gets its name (see the accompanying article of RA Dyer). The flower shown is from a specimen in the collection of Fred van Niekerk. The flowers of the species range in colour from good reds with characteristic green lips through to a yellow form (see accompanying Auction catalogue for examples of varieties).

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Illustration 5: Clivia mirabilis. Gill had the type plant sent up from Kirstenbosch in order to represent it. She was thwarted in her regime of working from live material in that it was not in bloom, and so had to resort to photographs of habitat material for painting the blooms and seed umbel. It is interesting that we have had released to the market almost twice as many plants as are estimated to be growing in habitat. It is probably true of most of the species that there are more plants in cultivation that in habitat.

Illustration 6: Clivia robusta. The form depicted is that deposited by Fanie Venter in the Pretoria Botanical Gardens in the 1970s and used in Flowering Plants to incorrectly depict Clivia nobilis. The plants stood near the entrance in large clumps in the shade bearing this label, but were moved to the shade house once we alerted the curator to their actual identity. They are an orange flowered form of the larger variety of the species, which Fred van Niekerk has christened ‘Maxima’. It would seem that the species status of these plants is still contentious but their association with a swamp habitat cannot be contested, resulting in them producing buttress-like roots from the stem as it rises in growth above the water line.&

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TRIBUTE Mentor and friend remembered “Oom” Frans Gerber head, after giving another of my best crosses to a visitor, before it flowered. e was a gentleman, a mentor, a teacher During 2003 Oom Frans became very sick and true friend. I first heard of Oom and had to get chemotherapy, that also made HFrans during the year 2000, when my him feel bad, but still he was never too sick grandfather gave me his number, which he to come to the phone, and have a short talk. found in the Church pamphlet. I phoned him, During September that year, he recovered, and and he immediately invited me over. my father and I invited Oom Frans and Tannie That day I made a true friend. I “bothered” him Sannie to accompany us on a visit to Mr. Bertie with phone calls, at least twice a week, but he Guillaume, in Louis Trighard. There we also was never too busy to answer my questions. attended their annual Clivia Show, and we also During September 2000, he invited Mr. Dawie paid a visit to Mrs. Athri Wessels. Strydom and me to accompany him on a visit Soon after the Clivia season, Oom Frans fell very to Louis Trighard, (now Mokhado) where I ill. I still remember my last visit to him. There met a lot of new clivia friends, like Mr. Bertie was a beautiful Clivia caulescens flowering, Guillaume, Mrs. Ansie Le Roux, Prof. Dries Bester just outside the living room, and a wonderful and Mrs. Olive Brummer. We spent the night at bronzed flowering clivia, named “Boesman”. Mr. Bertie Guillaume’s place. I still remember His last word to me was “generaal, moenie being fascinated by all his hunting trophies. We warrie nie saam gaan ons nog baie Clivias came home, with a car full of plants and made plant” (General, don’t worry, together we’ll still a lot of new Clivia friends. plant many clivias together”). And that we will During December, the same year, I was invited do, in Heaven one day. to meet up with Oom Frans and Mr. Andy I take may hat off to all that Tannie Sannie Hardinge, at his holiday house, at Glenmoore, and his family did for him. He passed away this was the first time I came in contact with peacefully on 9 November 2003 at home, with Clivia robusta, then simply known as the Swamp the bronze clivia flowering in his room. I know Clivia. Mr. Harding took us to his nursery, as well that all that knew him will agree that we lost a as his Clivia collection, at his home in Trafalgar. great clivia personality that day, and that he will And once again I came home happy to have be greatly missed by all. made new clivia friends, and having acquired Goodbye to the man who taught me how to new plants. love life, goodbye Oom Frans until we meet I can’t, once, remember visiting Oom Frans, and again. coming home empty handed. Oom Frans just loved giving, and I myself, caught on from him, George Mann as I myself can sometimes “hit” myself over the [email protected]

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CONFERENCE NEWS Speakers & Topics

Tony Barnes: Clivias in New Zealand omewhat concerned by the number of his last birthday, Tony Barnes feels he now has fewer years ahead than behind him Sand often asks himself, “Why didn’t I start breeding Clivias 20 years earlier?” − With approximately six more generations, (and some luck !!) that elusive blue/purple may eventuate, if he lives to 120! A keen amateur is all he admits to being and sometimes his Clivias look great and sometimes a disaster. Tony made his first garden when he was 5 years old and with a farming background dropped out of University to farm and move into ornamental horticulture, which has been his passion and interest for the last 30 years. He has given talks on horticultural subjects all around NZ, and his presentation, largely visual, will be looking at the history of Clivia in NZ, growing conditions, commercial growing, and people involved in the current Clivia scene. This isn’t a scientific talk in any way, merely the observations of a keen amateur gardener and plants person with a special interest in Clivia. Owning Ngamamaku, a Garden of National Significance that is well known around New Zealand, he is also heavily involved with the NZ Camellia Society, the Taranaki Rhododendron and Garden Festival and the NZ Clivia Club. He works part time as a consultant for the largest rose nursery in NZ. Tony first started playing around with Clivias in 1990 and now has a large selection of his own hybrids. Hundreds are now planted around his three acre garden. His special interest is in pastels and interspecifics. Tony is really excited to be meeting so many other Clivia enthusiasts and sharing information on the New Zealand scene. Having just organised the National Camellia Show for New Zealand the week before this upcoming 2006 Clivia Conference he is feeling in need of a genus change.

Sean Chubb: A practical approach to colour breeding in Clivia miniata ean Chubb is a farmer by profession. He concentrates his efforts on growing sugar cane, citrus and commercial timber Splantations. He also runs a small herd of Nguni cattle, which have been bred as Stud since 1977, and which is one of the oldest Nguni studs in South Africa. Above all, Sean is a nature lover and conservationist with a wide interest in all living creatures and plants. Devoted to propagating only indigenous South African plants he was once referred to as a Philistine for having very limited knowledge of plants not native to South Africa. Sean has grown Cycad species and indigenous trees commercially but now concentrates his efforts on a few species, namely Clivia, Scadoxus, Veltheimia and Kniphofia. Sean’s interest in Clivia started at an early age while attending high school at Hilton College. He collected and grew Clivia seed found growing wild in the forest. His real passion for Clivia and the interest in Clivia breeding began when he acquired a plant that was not orange in colour but peach. The early breeding results were very slow and, with no knowledge of Clivia breeding and no one to turn to for advice, success was limited until 1994, when the first true-breeding batch of peach seedlings flowered.

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With a taste for the unusual and uncommon, Sean has concentrated on breeding and perpetuating rare colours and colour combinations. He has a practical approach to Clivia breeding, which he shared during his presentation at the 2006 Clivia Conference. Sean is also passionate about conserving Clivia history and has probably the most complete collection of wild-occurring Clivia mutations, including yellows, peaches, pinks and other rare colour forms. He has started what he calls the Clivia Heritage Collection, which is essentially a collection of Clivia with traceable origins and history. This collection is only in its infancy and hopefully by keeping this collection of living historical plants some Clivia history will be preserved.

Ian Coates: Photography: for the record... for science and… for display his talk will appeal to a wide audience as it looks at basics in record photography, it looks at the technical side in the UV Tphotography and it looks at the ‘arty’ side in the display work. Ian, a photographer by profession of nearly fifty years standing, started growing Clivia in 1965. Although enthusiasts were thin on the ground in those days, he feels privileged to have made contact with many who were the leading Clivia growers of their day and who generously helped with his collection and provided the basics for his subsequent breeding. His experience in photographic technology formed the platform for his entry into Ultraviolet photography of Clivia species. As a Professional, he was Fellow of the British Institute of Professional Photographers and served on their Council and was Chairman of their Qualifications Board. He is also Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and has photographed numerous members of Royalty and Heads of State, the Churches and the Arts. However, he believes you are only as good as your last image!

Joe Dana: The Joe Dana Clivia Collection he Joe Dana clivia collection − a clivia enthusiast’s intensive breeding programme towards specified form and colour Tobjectives, with over 2200 identified clones and including the use of over 200 stored pollen lines. This presentation will illustrate plants from his collection, his own hybrids as well hybrids from David Conway, Joseph Solomone, Monterrey Bay nursery, San Marcos nursery as well other well known collections. He will also be explaining his own hybridization techniques, pollen collection and storage. He will also discuss his method of pollen storage and longevity of pollen life to be expected as well regarding his experiences. He has presently 244 distinct and different varieties of pollen in storage and will be explaining his pollen trading and leasing activities. He ships pollen internationally and leases quite a bit of pollen which is where he approves the plants on which his pollen is used and in trade, receive 50% of the harvest.

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PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS

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Roger Fisher: The seeing hand − the genus Clivia depicted his talk considers how the art of depiction satisfies ways of seeing and knowing, particularly the Tgenus Clivia. The botanical artist is constrained by convention that requires that more be depicted than is seen. This helps in the scientific understanding of the plant. The artist, however is not anonymous in this endeavour, but reveals their presence through their style. Roger Fisher is a Professor of Architecture in the Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria. He has taught in the programmes of architecture, landscape architecture and interior architecture for the past twenty years. In 2006 he was awarded honorary membership of the Institute of Landscape architects of South Africa. In this time amongst his teaching duties have been that of studio leader to every of the five years of study, as well as teaching in the courses of History of the Environment, Building Technology and Sustainability. He became a member of the Clivia Society two years ago at the encouragement of Ammie Grobler. He currently edits the Clivia Society Newsletter.

Hein Grebe: A photographic expedition to the mirabilis populations of the Western Cape ith access to the restricted Clivia mirabilis habitat, Hein will give us a Wvisual tour of their habitat and variety as well as some of the problems facing the plants in their struggle to survive. Hein Grebe was born in South Africa’s famous Garden Route on 19 July 1961. He spent all his childhood and school years on a farm where his love for nature and plants were entrenched. From an early pre-school age he was collecting succulent plants and always had a love and admiration for trees. While studying engineering at the University of Stellenbosch he stayed on the farm ‘Old Nectar’, belonging to General Kenny and Mrs Una van der Spuy. These famous authors of numerous plant and garden books further stimulated his interest in plants. He was one of the last persons that the late General van der Spuy taught to prune roses. He started to grow clivias in 1993 when seeds of yellow clivia were bought from Jim Holmes. The same year he joined the Indigenous Bulb Association of South Africa and in 1998 the Clivia Club. He had picked up the ‘clivia disease’ in the late nineties after visiting Toy Jennings’ clivia collection. Today Hein has a collection of several million flower bulbs (indigenous and exotic) growing on his farm outside George. His dream is to turn his hobby collection into a flower reserve for everyone to enjoy one day. His interest in clivia has shifted to the various forms of Light of Buddha and Chinese dwarfs and mutations. He is presently employed as the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Department of Transport and Public Works in the Western Cape Province.

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Rudo Lötter: Colour in Clivia his presentation will show how colour is formed in the Clivia flower as a combination of several factors, such as cell distribution, Tpigment distribution, pigment dilution and mutations. These factors in combination with the primary colours, Yellow, Red, Green and White give rise to secondary colours. Secondary colours are the visible colour of the flower. The focus is on the different colours and how to group them and to distinguish between pastels and peaches. Attention is given to the five factors that can result in yellow Clivia. Furthermore, colour can be influenced by distribution factors such as pattern genes, these give rise to bicolors and picotees. Finally, a futuristic look at the possibility of blue He was raised on a small holding just outside Pretoria. His father, a keen plant collector and bird breeder, established his love for birds and plants from an early age. He taught him his vast knowledge succulents, cycads and palms, and also his lives experiences with birdkeeping, breeding of rare parrots, and how to care for them. His father being a scientist of nature, always tried to improve on methods to hand rear baby parrots or to breed new flowers through hybridization. He was faccinated with his work. His mother, being a faithful Christian, laid the foundation for Rudo as a hardworking and honest man.

Helen Marriott: Nakamura’s contribution to Clivia breeding his paper will outline the contribution of Yoshikazu Nakamura of the Clivia Breeding Plantation, Japan, to clivia breeding. In Taddition to establishing an early collection of Clivias, from the outset and until the present, Nakamura has possessed a broad set of breeding objectives. Although his extensive use of Vico Yellow is well known, here I will endeavour to describe the breadth of his clivia breeding and also refer to the influences upon himself as well as his influence upon others. With a sole specialisation in clivias, Nakamura has promoted clivia growing and breeding in Japan and elsewhere, with his influence extending widely throughout the Clivia Society (and former Clivia Club), and he has also disseminated the outcomes of this breeding through seed (or plants) to collectors or growers in Japan and overseas over a period of around two decades, but particularly during the past 15 years. Some of his contributions to clivia breeding include fully using different species and their combinations, and improving flower characteristics, as well as breeding for plant characteristics, especially a range of variegates in different combinations. This presentation will be illustrated with slides taken in Japan or Australia of Nakamura plant material, particularly his interspecifics, variegates and multitepals. Helen Marriott is an associate professor in the Japanese Studies program in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics of Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Although she had had a long interest in plants and gardens, she began growing clivias in 1998 after moving to her present home and was stimulated by the receipt in that same year of a mature yellow Clivia (‘Aurea’) from her neighbour (whose husband had been an early distributor of these offsets in the 1980s). Now she is inundated with Clivia plants and seedlings, and devotes quite a bit of her spare time to this pursuit. One clivia-related development was the purchase in mid-2003 of a digital compact camera

18 CLIVIA NEWS & VOLUME 15 NUMBER 3 & JULY - SEPTEMBER 2006 to take photos of clivias. When on work trips to Japan she has had the privilege of visiting Yoshikazu Nakamura’s Clivia Breeding Plantation on four occasions in recent years and has fond memories of these visits. She has also been fortunate in seeing and photographing many fine specimens of Nakamura-bred clivias in the Melbourne glasshouse of Laurens and Esther Rijke, many of which have been grown from seed.

Victor Murillo: Breeding the Victorian Peach he first plant used in breeding Victorian Peach, colours that have evolved, such as: Light, TMedium, and Dark Peach. The range of colours, that this gene pool has produced, from Yellows to Pink. The plant habit will also be gone into in detail: its broad, sturdy foliage. New developments in Victorian Peach will be covered, such as compact habit, ideal for the city hobbyist. Other beautiful Clivia that have evolved from the Peach breeding program such as: Variegated Peaches, Multitepal Peaches, Multitepal variegated Peaches, Daruma like Peaches. I have devoted my career to the horticultural sector in California. For the last 11 years I have been in charge of inventory and assist with production, in charge of the Clivia and Alstroemeria breeding program at Sunlet Nursery in Fallbrook, situated about half way between San Diego and Los Angeles. We produce florist quality flowering potted plant material such as Carnations, Cineraria, Lisianthus and Ornamental Peppers to name a few. We ship to other wholesalers, retailers and garden center chains as well. I started ‘Murillo’s Exquisite Clivia’s in 2003, a family owned business consisting of myself, my wife Danielle and our children Isaiah, Kaya and Malayah. Through MEC we are distributing Clivias all over the world. These plants include Victorian Peach, my own named Clones and Joe Solomone’s plants. I am currently working on some new interesting material.

Ken Smith: Registration of Clivia ead Teacher of Horticulture at Richmond TAFE College, NSW Australia. Have been growing plants since childhood and Hcollect most types, particularly variegated foliage and flower forms. Major interest in Clivia breeding (I did a thesis on Clivia for university studies in 1988) and I have been involved with the Clivia Society since 1992. I am the Contact Person for Australian members. I was appointed the International Registrar for the Genus Clivia in 2002, as the Society is the recognised International Cultivar Registration Authority (ICRA). I am a member of the Management Committee of the Clivia Society and participate in the International Clivia Group forum. Married to Yasmin, one son, Daniel, and one daughter, Simone. Member of Clivia Society, NACS, NZCC, CS of A, Toowoomba CS, ICG forum. Plus various other plant societies. I am interested in Crocosmia and Watsonia breeding, as well as unusual foliage forms of Camellias. I also breed Chinese Laceneck Doves and Diamond Doves.

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Johan Spies: Genetic aspects of Clivia breeding o put Clivia breeding on a scientific basis where the outcome of different crosses can be predicted, more knowledge of basic Tgenetics is needed. Through the years many people explained certain phenomena in Clivia and oversimplified these genetics concepts. This oversimplification resulted in wrong assumptions in some cases. The aim of this paper is to bring some of these deviations from normal Mendelian inheritance to the attention of Clivia breeders. In this process the effects of epistasis, polygenetic and cytoplasmic inheritance, genomic imprinting, lethal genes, mutations and genetic variation, as well as the differences between structural and regulatory genes will be discussed. Throughout emphasis will be on the practical application of these phenomena on an active breeding program. Born in Harrismith on 24/1/52. Matriculate from Harrismith Secondary School and obtain B.Sc. degree (majors: Genetics and Zoology) from UOFS in 1973. Worked in Tygerberg Hospital and obtained a B.Med.Sc.Hons. in human cytogenetics from the US in 1975. Worked as sorghum breeder for SENSAKO in Lichtenburg and obtain M.Sc. (Genetics) from the UOFS. Worked at the Botanical Research Institute (Pretoria) since 1981 and obtain a Ph.D. (Genetics) from the UOFS. Employed by the UFS since 1989 and progress to Professor in 1996. Published 76 papers in accredited journals, 10 popular scientific papers and was involved in more than 100 presentations at congresses. Member of various national and international societies; president of the South African Genetics Society. Involved with Clivia since 2001 and doing research on various aspects of the genus.

John van der Linde: Some clivias and the men who found them ohn will give an illustrated talk on the pioneering discoverers of Clivias. These Jinclude an ex-school teacher, a paid plant explorer and an army officer. He will discuss their personalities and lifestyles and where they found their clivias, against a background of fierce competition in the field, between botanists, plant publications and plant collectors back in Europe. John retired at 58 in 1995 from a career in the life insurance industry. Since then he has become interested in clivia history, genetics and breeding. Besides enjoying writing on clivias, John is currently one of the Editors of the Clivia Yearbook, a committee member of the Cape Clivia Club, and vice-Chairman of the Clivia Society. He is also active in the Indigenous Bulb Association of South Africa and in Rotary. He and his wife Beth have 4 children and 10 grandchildren.

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Aart van Voorst: Ploidy research in Clivia - an update with new results fter treating seeds of Clivia in vitro and in vivo with colchicine cytochimerical and tetraploid Aplants were obtained. Offsets of these plants were tested for ploidy level. Triploid miniata hybrids were grown to maturity and flowered. Triploid and a tetraploid interspecific hybrid were bred using embryo culture. Born in 1955, he grew up in the forest of Bennekom in the Netherlands, and a keen interest in nature was developed at an early age. After studying Biology at the Wageningen Agricultural University he started his professional life at a Bulbflower company. He set up a breeding laboratory for this company where many Alstroemeria cut-flower hybrids were developed. Ploidy manipulation is one of his interests and likes to use his knowledge in Clivia and Haemanthus as a hobby. Another hobby is running in the beautiful dunes of Holland. His work as deacon of the Protestant Church at his residence takes up the rest of his spare time. Aart is happily married with Anke and has two teenage daughters.

A Rashid Qureshi: Plant Genetics his talk deals with basic plant genetics in order that delegates may be familiar with basic concepts. I am a cardiologist by Tprofession, in practice for the past 30 years in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. I grow clivias in a small green house as a hobby. I am a member and serve on the Board of Directors of the North American Clivia Society. I am also a member of the South African Clivia Society.

Song Xueguan: Clivia in China his talk will introduce the development of Chang Chun Clivia, covering the scale, quantity, quality and position of Chang Chun TClivia, as well as the future prospects of Chang Chun Clivia in the coming 5 years. It will then look at the enhancement of international exchange in Clivia, with a brief introduction to the projects of Chang Chun Clivia industrial center and the projects of Chang Chun He Xin Clivia industrial base. Song Xueguan, born in 1947, educated at the Ji Lin Agricultural University, is presently Deputy Head of Chang Chun Economical Committee, Deputy Head of Chang Chun S&ME Development Bureau and President of Chang Chun Private Management Enterprises Society. As a Clivia enthusiast he is Chief of Chang Chun Clivia Industrial Office, Adviser of Chang Chun Clivia Society and President of Chang Chun Clivia Academic Committee. &

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Clivia miniata Gill Condy ©SAPO

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GROWERS AND BREEDERS NOTES Q's & A's you may find a build up of salts in the potting soil. The leaves become thicker to accommodate Questions by Baker O’Brien - the excess salts such as chloride and sodium. [email protected] and answers by Then you may also find pustules forming with an Lena van der Merwe - [email protected] excess of salts such as potassium. Leaf tips brown and die. The roots get compromised and the Q - I have a collection of clivia I have had for plants grow poorly resulting in fungus problems. some 30 years and love dearly. The past couple of years I have been experiencing some sort of Treatment with a fungicide and re-potting the fungus on the leaves. Can you tell me what type plants should prevent further deterioration of of fungicide I should use to cure this problem? the plants. The pustules will not vanish, but will not increase. I will also discuss your problem with other members tomorrow at our Club meeting.& Q - Thank you so very much for your quick reply, as well as your willingness to assist me in helping cure my wonderful plants! I am in Ohio, in the USA, so please let me know how you would like payment for the booklet. My clivia are currently potted in orchid mix, so the roots do not get waterlogged. I can re-pot them. Shall I use the same medium? Am I to use the fungicide directly on the roots before re potting? I am attaching a couple I was told to fertilize more heavily in the of pictures. Also, I summer, then withhold fertilizer in the fall, as would like to purchase well as water less frequently, for bloom building. the booklet “Cultivation I am watering about every 2 weeks, from the of Clivias” published top, not letting them sit in water. last year by the Clivia Is ‘leaching’ letting much more water than they Society. Can you send need run through the roots and medium? me the necessary information to do that? & And what exactly do “pustules” look like? A - Photo 1: This may be Coletotrichum. I will check to see if “Bravo” is available here in This fungus usually indicates that something is the States. If not, I will get the generic name(s) wrong with the roots. Take the plants out of of what is available here. & the potting soil and inspect the roots. A broad Orchid mix, if it is for cymbidiums, is fine spectrum fungicide such as Bravo may help. A - as a potting mix. Over time the potting mix may Photo 2: There are three things: get too compact if it decomposes to fines and 1. The tip of the leaf browned and is missing. so needs to be replaced. 2. Brown pustules on the leaves and Leaching means the adding of water and having 3. the “sheath” of the leaf is coloured brown about 10% drain out at the drain holes to get indicating that the thin papery film in the leaf rid of some of the salts. sheath is infected. Pustules are lesions that stand up like warts. How long ago were the plants re-potted? The table on page 24 gives the active ingredient How frequently do you fertilise? of Bravo and Switch (registered here for How do you water your plants? botritis on grapes but will also help solving the What is the quality of the water you use? problem). If you do not leach your plants from time to time The cost for Cultivation of Clivias is $ 15-00.

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Active ingredient Trade name Manufacturer Pests/Diseases Chlorothalonil # Bravo Efekto Rusts, leaf die back Macrophoma agapanthii Pytium, Phytophthera Rhizoctonia (preventative)

Cyprodinil/ Switch Novartis Botrytis rot, most of the aggressive fungi Fludioxonil*

If you supply us with your credit card detail, the treasurer Bossie de Kock will process the transaction (Name of card holder, number, expiry date and last three digits at the back of the card). Payment by cheque has to be arranged with the treasurer - bossiedekock@absamail. co.za. You may go to www.cliviasociety.org and complete an order form from the web. The growth of clivias is mostly during the spring and autumn. In winter (December and January in northern hemisphere or June and July in southern hemisphere) we usually do not water until the plants push their flowers.& Q - Over the weekend I re potted all of the ‘children’. They had not been re-potted in probably 7 years and yes, the one time course inorganic elements nitrogen (N), phosphorous medium had disintegrated into fine soil. The (P) and potassium (K) at a ratio of 7:1:5 per healthy roots were intertwined with lots of dried year. and dead ones, so I pulled all of those out and To supplement these elements the N can be pulled the fine soil out of the center. I had a big divided into three because N leaches out easily pile of dead stuff by the time I did all of them! and too high an application of N will burn I re-potted them in a very coarse orchid mix, it the roots. Fertilize with 3g (0.5 teaspoon) of was difficult to get them to stand up on their a mixture of 3:1:5::N:P:K per plant (crown) own - they wanted to fall over. But I managed and twice a year supplemented with 3g N to get most of them to remain upright, gave (ammonium sulphate). Phosphate does not them all a bath and they look happier already! leach out easily, but because these are pot I’m hoping the airy mix will allow the roots to plants that are watered regularly, the potassium stabilize the tops. may leach out, and so may also be fertilized Now my question is about fertilizer - shall I do with one gram potassium per plant twice a it now? year. And what strength shall I use? Water also contains inorganic elements in the form of salts. Depending on the water quality I am still going to search out the chemicals a build up of these salts may occur. To prevent you mentioned here. I want these wonderful this, give the plants a bath at least once a plants to be as healthy as possible and I greatly month - enough water so that some of it drains appreciate your advice.& out at the drainage hole. A - Prof. Hannes Robbertse advised at one of The following is some information from a paper our Northern Clivia Club meeting as follows: I gave at one of our Club meetings: A clivia plant produces about 100g of dry matter Management per annum of which about 3.3g comprises the The salinity of potting mixes must be kept

24 CLIVIA NEWS & VOLUME 15 NUMBER 3 & JULY - SEPTEMBER 2006 lower than the limits given in the following against damage through the rise in salinity as table 21.12 from Handreck and Black (2002) the plants use water. Growing media page 318. Maximize the water holding capacity of the Higher salinities mean that pots must be potting media. (This is a topic on its own). leached. But how much extra water should be Salinity problems are likely to be most serious in used? Soluble nutrients will be lost in leaching hot, dry weather. Evapo-transpiration rates are water. The aim is to leach as little as is necessary higher then, so the concentration of salts in the to reduce EC. The best guide is to leach water remaining in the medium rises quickly. according to EC measurements. Otherwise, a Earthenware pots need to be leached before fair average is to allow between 10% and 20% re-use as continued evaporation of water from of applied water to flow out of the bottom of their outer surfaces gives them very high salt the pots. contents. The greater the water-holding ability of a I hope this will help you on a path to healthier mix, the greater the protection it offers plants plants.&

Table 21.12. Guidelines for using the EC of a potting mix to decide when to fertilize woody plants of moderate toler¬ance to salinity” EC (SATURATION EC (1 :1.5 VOLUME ACTION EXTRACT) (Ds/m) EXTRACT) (dS/m) <0.75 <0.35 Fertilizer needed. except when controlled-release fertilizers are still releasing nutrients 0.75-2.0 0.35-1.0 Acceptable when feeding is by controlled-release fertilizers; suitable for salt-sensitive plants; otherwise apply nutrients 2.0-3.5 1.0-1.7 Acceptable for most established plants except some very salt-sensitive plants 3.5-5.0 1.7-2.3 Higher than desirable for all except high-nutrient- requiring plants; do not fertilize; do not allow the mix to become dry 5.0-6.0 2.3-3.0 Too high; reduced plant growth; wilting and leaf burning; leach immediately

RED RUBY GLITTER [As a point to ponder in relationship to aspects of In order fully to appreciate the unsurpassable colour and its inheritance as well as the pheno- beauty of this [Nerine sarniensis] flower one menon of the sparkling dusting of certain named must see it in its natural surroundings on the Clivia flowers, this extract from Flora Capensis grassy mountain ledges, the blue sky above and (Thistelton-Dyer [Ed], 1896-7: Vol VI:II) - Ed.] the rays of the early-morning sun scintillating in iagrammatic representation of an red and scarlet on its petals. epidermis cell of Nerine sarniensis, This exquisite optical effect is produced by Dshowing the paths of several rays of a very simple device. Each petal (perianth- light. The portion of each of these rays, which segment) consists of the upper and lower is reflected on the outer surface of the cell, is epidermis, with a few layers of cells between omitted, and the angles of refraction are merely them, the cells of the epidermis being filled approximate. [The spot of absorbed light is seen with a red or scarlet sap, while the intermediate as a bright point of glitter - Ed.] tissue is colourless.

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The outer end of each outer side in a colour of great epidermal cell is convex, and purity, for, having traversed its base is narrowed into the sap of the cell several a short rounded foot, the times, it has become deprived whole cell being somewhat of all rays of other shades of pear-shaped. The narrow colour. inner end of the cell As no rays can leave the cell touches the adjoining cell near its edge, the centre of of the colourless tissue only the apex of each cell becomes at a small spot, while the a luminous spot, and the greater portion of the foot surface of the petal glitters of the cell is surrounded by as if dusted over with tiny an air-space. It is this special rubies. In fact each cell is like feature which produces the a microscopic ruby set in the glittering effect. usual way, the base of the cell The outer, dome-shaped with its surrounding air-space end acts like a convex lens corresponding to the foliated and conducts the rays of silver often placed by jewellers light falling upon it into the underneath the stones in lower part of the cell.* Here order to increase their fire. a small portion (the central It is obvious that the merely bundle of rays) will pass out into the adjoining reflecting surface of a picture in a book can just colourless tissue and either reach the lower side as little approach the beauty of the living flower of the petal or, after various reflections, reappear as the painting of a ruby can rival the real gem. on the upper side (rays 3 and 4). The bulk of the *A ray of light cannot pass from water into rays, however, will experience total reflection* air unless the incident angle be larger than 45 within the cell (rays 1 and 2) and reappear on its degrees.&

CLIVIANA Cinderellas − Stamps with Clivia Tabs here is a story behind the stamps Further inscriptions on the tabs of the two used depicted. stamps read: TVery soon after publication of the two “Species cross and C. miniata Red – stamp articles in the January - March Newsletter Yoshikazu Nakamura”. of 2006, I received a note from David Bearlin of “C. miniata x C. gardenii – Burwood Clivia Nursery in Pambula, New South Yoshikazu Nakamura”. Wales. He did enjoy the discussion of stamps and told me that “Australian Post “will produce The mint stamp I received from David depicts personalized stamps for customers. three lovely yellow umbels plus two inter- According to David he has used this facility for specifics with the words: “Yoshikazu Nakamura some years to send Clivia stamps (by the sheet) and Clivia Breeding Plantation, Japan”. to Yoshikazu Nakamura “to remunerate some of Ken Smith confirmed that he knows about these his kindnesses”. clivia tabs and that he has, in fact, received mail David placed two of these Aussie 50c stamps with these beauties stuck on them. on the envelope to me, each with a lovely Clivia I find it very strange and interesting that tab of the “Clivia Breeding Plantation, Japan” “Australian Post” is prepared to print the name attached. ofanother on the tab that is attached to their

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postal stamp. This may indicate that the whole world population of six billion people are potential “customers/ clients” of Australian Post. It stands to reason that Mr. Yoshi Nakamura cannot use these Aussie stamps commercially in Japan, but for a few yen these beauties exceed their monetary value! Many questions arise, and perhaps Ken, Pen or any other Aussie friend can enter the fray and throw some light on the following: a What is the smallest order (money wise) that Australian Post will accept? b What is the smallest denomination in Aussie currency that a tab may be added to? c Does the client/ customer obtain the whole consignment of a particular issue printed or are these stamps with tabs also available to other citizens from postal counters? d May the customer request that the tab be added to a specific future issue of stamps (i.e. clivia) or does Australia Post decide themselves where and when they want to add the tab? e Will Australia Post consider printing only the tab of clivia which we can then use as a “Cinderella”? f It seems as if the tab is produced from photographs, but what is the cost to add the tab to the stamp? g Does the offer still stand from Australian Post? h It will be interesting to know the meaning of the markings of the franking machine of SWLF ML and CANCELLED SCM? How about utilizing these in future to give our beauties some wings? Should we not abandon all IT-based media – e-mail & SMSs [text-messages] and go back to the good practice of writing letters to one another, then we can stick these beautiful “Cinderellas” with the stamps on the envelope? The value of the stamps will, however, be wasted in a foreign country, as they can only be used as postal tax within Australia.& Sakkie Nel - [email protected]

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ADVERTISEMENTS CLIVI-ARTA Tariffs for advertising in the Clivia Society Newsletter: Conference eagerness... Smalls (1 to 6 lines): R25.00 Helen Sanders Smalls (7 to 10 lines): R30.00 Quarter page: R70.00 Half page: R125.00 Full Page: R250.00 A5 separate page insert: R600.00 A4 separate page insert: R800.00 (You will be sent an account from the treasurer for the appropriate amount.) FROM THE CLIVIA SOCIETY Overseas members can order back volume copies of the Yearbooks and Newsletters (since 1992) via the society. South African members should approach their local branches. We must point out that it is difficult to quote a fixed price without knowing the method of payment and delivery. We suggest you contact Bossie de Kock (the treasurer) via e-mail at: bossiedekock@ absamail.co.za or by fax at +27 12 804 8892 and list the items you are interested in as well as the name of the country in which you reside. Bossie would then be in a position to suggest the most economical option. Australian, UK, New Zealand and USA members are reminded that they can order via Ken Smith, Dr Hamish Sloan, Di Smith and James Black respectively − see inner back pages for contact details. Also note that further discounts can be nego-tiated with Bossie for orders exceeding 10 of a specific item. The items listed in the table are available.

Item Approximate price (US $)* Yearbook 7 15 Yearbook 6 15 Yearbook 5 out of stock Yearbook 4 10 Yearbook 3 out of stock Yearbook 2 10 Yearbook 1 out of stock Cultivation of Clivias 15 Volumes 1(1992) to 11 (2002) of newsletters 10 per volume Set of volumes 1 to 10 available on request *Including postage and banking charges if paid by credit card. Contact Bossie de Kock for quotation re payments made by cheque.

28 REPRESENTATIVES OF CLIVIA ENTHUSIASTS & New Zealand Tony Barnes, Ngamamaku, 1521 Sur f Highway 45, R.D.4 New Plymouth, 4061, New Zealand. Tel: 64-6-752 7873; e-mail: tony.john@x tra.co.nz & Australia Ken Smith 593 Hawkesbury Rd., Winmalee, NSW 2777, Australia Tel: +61 2 47543287; e-mail: [email protected] & Netherlands: Aart van Voorst, Frederick Hendriklaan 49, Hillegom, TE 2181, Netherlands. Tel: +31 252529679; email: [email protected] & United Kingdom: James Black, 10606 North 166th East Ave., Owasso, OK 74055 USA Tel: 918 272-4623; e-mail: [email protected] & England: Dr Hamish Sloan, 40 Wendan Road, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 7AF, England, UK. Tel: 044 1635 47417; e-mail: [email protected] OTHER OVERSEAS CONTACT PERSONS FOR MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION & International: Di Smith, 71 Taylor Road, Mangere Bridge, Auckland, New Zealand Tel: (09) 634 6807 or 021 231 9200; NZ Clivia Club e-mail: [email protected]; personal e-mail: [email protected] CONTACT DETAILS FOR CLIVIA CLUBS AND INTEREST GROUPS & Cape Clivia Club Joy Woodward (Secretary). PO Box 53219, Kenilworth 7745 Tel: 021 799 8768, Fax: 021 761 4687, Cell: 072 487 7933; e-mail: [email protected] & Eastern Province Clivia Club Andrè Calitz (Chairperson) Tel: 082- 574 9058 (h) 041-367 4476 e-mail: [email protected] & Free State Clivia Club Hennie van der Mescht (Chairperson), 18 Mettam Street, Fichardt Park, Bloemfontein, 9322. Tel: +27 51 522 9530; Fax +27 51 436 4340; e-mail: [email protected] & Garden Route Clivia Club Gerrie Brits (Chairperson). Tel: +27 44 8746233 a/h Fax: +27 44 8707550 Cell: 082 921 7963; e-mail: [email protected] & Joburg Clivia Club Glynn Middlewick (Chairperson). 2 Willow Road, Northcliff, 2195 Tel: +27 11 476 1463; e-mail: [email protected] & KwaZulu-Natal Clivia Club Sean Chubb (Chairperson). Thurlow Farm, PO Box 126, Eston, 3740 Tel & Fax: +27 31 781 1978; e-mail: [email protected] & Northern Clivia Club Lena van der Merwe (Secretary). PO Box 74868, Lynnwood Ridge, 0040 Tel & Fax: +27 12 804 8892; e-mail: [email protected] & Waterberg Boslelieklub An Jacobs. PO Box 3893, Nylstroom, 0510 Tel & Fax: +27 14 717 3674; e-mail: [email protected] & Border Interest Group John Roderick. PO Box 2429, Beacon Bay, 5205. Tel: +27 82 567 7069; Fax: 0866124473; e-mail: [email protected] & Lowveld Interest Group Ian Radmore (Secretary). PO Box 1146, White River, 1240 Tel: +27 13 751 2051; e-mail: [email protected] & Northern KZN Hottie Human (Chairperson). PO Box 20244, Newcastle, 2940 Tel: +27 34 3181327 or +27 82 290 6332; e-mail: [email protected] & Overberg Clivia Felicity Weeden. PO Box 1468, Hermanus,7200 Interest Group Tel: + 27 28 Group. 316 3092 e-mail: [email protected] or Caroline Phipps Tel: + 27 73 221 5267 or Cell: 028 341 0014 & Welkom Interest Group Louis Chadinha (Chairperson). PO Box 2204, Welkom, 9460 Tel: 057 3576067; e-mail: [email protected] & Zoutpansberg Enthusiasts Anneke Stroebel (Secretary). PO Box 1712, Louis Trichardt, 0920 Tel: +27 83 326 6073. Fax: +27 15 516 5710; e-mail: [email protected]

V O LUME 15 NUMBER 4 & O CTO BER - DECEMBER 2006 THE OBJECTIVES OF THE CLIVIA SOCIETY 1. To coordinate the interests, activities and objectives of constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; 2. To participate in nature conservation activities in relation to the protection and conservation of the genus Clivia in its natural habitat, to promote the genus Clivia and in that context also to promote the observation of conservation laws and practices; 3. To promote the cultivation, conservation and improvement of the genus Clivia by 3.1 the exchange and mutual dissemination of information amongst Constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; 3.2 where possible, the mutual exchange of plants, seed and pollen amongst Constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; and 3.3 the mutual distribution of specialised knowledge and expertise amongst Constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; 4. To promote the progress of and increase in knowledge of the genus Clivia and to advance it by enabling research to be done and by the accumulation of data and dissemination thereof amongst Constituent Clivia Clubs and associate members; 5. To promote interest in and knowledge of the genus Clivia amongst the general public; and 6. To do all such things as may be necessary and appropriate for the promotion of the abovementioned objectivs.

CLIVIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS & CHAIRMAN Chris Vlokk PO Box 99583, Garsfontein 0060 Tel H +27 12 998 5942 e-mail: [email protected] & VICE-CHAIRMAN John van der Linde 1 Wheelan Str., Newlands, 7700 Tel & Fax +27 21 671 4535 e-mail: [email protected] & SECRETARY Lena van der Merwe PO Box 74868, Lynnwood Ridge, 0040 Tel & Fax +27 12 804 8892 e-mail: [email protected] & TREASURER Bossie de Kock PO Box 38539, Garsfontein, 0042 Tel +27 12 807 2173 e-mail: [email protected] & OFFICE BEARER Ken Smith 593 Hawkesbury Rd., Winmalee, NSW 2777, Tel +61 2 47543287 Australia. e-mail: [email protected]

REPRESENTATIVES OF CONSTITUENT CLIVIA CLUBS & Cape Claude Felbert, Gerrit van Wyk and Johan Schoombee & Eastern Province André Calitz, Willie le Roux and Wimpie Maas & Northern Lena van der Merwe, Peter Lambert and Bossie de Kock & KwaZulu-Natal Sean Chubb and Liz Boyd & Free State Hennie van der Mescht & Garden Route Gerrie Brits & Joburg Glynn Middlewick and Koos Geldenhuys CLIVIA NEWS & V OLUME 15 NUMBER 4 & O CTOBER - DECEMBER 2006 Table of Contents

& CLIVIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE- AND CONSTITUENT MEMBERS Inner Front Cover & EDITORIAL - Roger Fisherr 2 & CORRESPONDENCE 3 & STORIES BEHIND THE COVERS Front Cover - Roger Fisher 6 Back cover - Ken Fargher & Cynthia le Roux 6 & GROWERS A BREEDERS NOTES Clivia Funnies - Cynthia le Rouxx 7 New for the control of mealy bug infestation for Clivia growers at home 8 Request for images of named Clivia cultivars and varietals & TRIBUTE Goodbye to a dear friend - Gert Wiese - Tino Ferero 9 & ANNUAL EVENTS 10 Cape Clivia Club 10 Eastern Province Clivia Club 10 Garden Route Clivia Club 11 Joburg Clivia Club Highlights 13 Kwa-Zulu Natal 14 Lowveld Clivia Interest Group 15 Northern Clivia Club 17 Overberg Interest Group 18 Towoomba Clivia Society Inc. 19 Welkom Interest Group 21 Waterberg Boslelie Group 21 & CLIVIANA "Cliviana" - Connie Liebenberg 24 & CLIVI-ARTA Helen Sanders 24 & REPRESENTATIVES OF CLUBS & ENTHUSIASTS CONTACT DETAILS Inner Back Cover

The Clivia Society Newsletter started as a black on white newssheet dated July 1992, numbered Volume 1 number 1, called 'Clivia Club'. It formed a means of communication for people interested in the plant genus Clivia. It was edited/written by Nick Primich with a frequency of 3, 5, 8 & 5 during the 1st 4 years, using the publication month in the volume. The frequency was fixed on 4 with vol. 5 # 1 of March 1996. The date changed to the Southern Hemisphere seasons with vol. 8 # 1 of Autumn 1999. The 1st three used yellow paper as cover. The name changed to 'CLIVIA CLUB NEWSLETTER' with vol. 9 # 1 Autumn 2000 with full colour photos on the cover pages. Another name change to 'CLIVIA SOCIETY NEWSLETTER' came with vol. 10 # 4 Summer 2000, and in 2005 reverted to a quarterly number. CLIVIA NEWS is the continuation of this series.

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EDITORIAL y sister Mary (who is the perennial student) says that the life cycle of conversion follows the clock – from 0 to 3 o’clock is the charismatic phase when the epiphany of discovery Mcharges the enthusiasm – by 6 o’clock it becomes apparent that there is work to do. At this stage many of the converts leave. By 9 o’clock those that have stayed are hard at it and by 12 o’clock they’re burning the mid-night oil fuelled by their passion. This was all too apparent with the 4th International Clivia Conference. Only the true Clivia Converts would have put in so much effort, travelled that many gruelling miles, had so many uncomfortable nights and yet stayed the pace. And by all accounts it’s been worth every minute. There have been so many highlights that they blur in the memory. Chief amongst these must be the pleasure of putting a face and voice to the many names one encounters in the Clivia annals, and some one can now call “friend”. Long may the memory and friendships last. We’re in the festive season and this issue has much that tells of work with children and the generosity of clivia growers. While we know that the enthusiasm for the genus is mainly amongst the grey and grizzled, one reads of how many have become enthusiasts through the memory of some long-forgotten childhood encounter with a grower or a plant. We applaud the efforts of those members who engender a love of the world of living things through their love of clivias. If you’ve not found any mistletoe for the mantelpiece, follow Helen Sanders advice in her Clivi-Arta piece and perch a plump-umbeled clivia there. Any excuse for a Xmas peck! May your season be filled with festclivities. & Roger Fisher – EDITOR

EDITOR OF NEWSLETTER ROGER FISHER: PO Box 856, Irene, 0062, Republic of South Africa &Tel: +27 83 602 7736 or +27 12 420 2550 &Fax: +27 12 667 2406 &E-mail: [email protected] PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER ROGER FISHER: &Tel: +27 83 602 7736 or +27 12 420 2550 &Fax: +27 12 667 2406 &E-mail: [email protected] YEARBOOK EDITORIAL JOHN VAN DER LINDE: 1 Wheelan Street, Newlands, 7700 &Tel: +27 21-671 4535 &E-mail: [email protected]. DESIGN & LAYOUT Fréda van Wyk082 468 8485 &PRINTING CPD Print, Pretoria Tel: 012-342 1978/9

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CORRESPONDENCE GIVING FOR THE SAKE OF CONSERVATION lrich and Ericka Landman moved into their present Port Elizabeth Uhome during the 60s, Ericka being a very passionate gardener soon brought about a complete change in the appearance of their garden by planting lots and lots of trees, shrubs and smaller garden plants which included some Clivias. She was most impressed with the Clivia plants and went on a search to find the much talked about and sought after yellow Clivia. A stroke of luck came her way when the owner of the nursery, which she so regularly supported, gave her the adult yellow Clivia plants. After showering the Clivia plants with tender loving care they soon rewarded Ericka and Ulrich handing over bags of Clivia plants her with lots and lots of suckers, which she transferred to other parts of their garden, even the grass pavement. Soon there wasn’t a nook which didn’t have clusters of Clivia plants. Flowering time was indeed a feast for the eyes − hundred and hundreds of orange and yellow flowers throughout the garden bringing passers-by to a halt to admire and congradulate the Landmans for a magnificent display. In 1999 when the Port Elizabeth Clivia Interest Group was formed, they joined and since 2000 provided the committee with Clivia seed for the sought after starter packs sold at the annual show. Ulrich even became a member of the committee and served for a while in that capacity. Now, after more than 30 years and age creeping up on them, they decided to move to a retirement village. The thought of bulldozers clearing everything Ericka had brought about in the garden sent shivers up her spine. To ensure the survival of their Clivias they decided to contribute to the promotion and conservation of Clivia Ulrich receiving a special award certificate by donating more than one thousand plants to family, from the Chairman, Andrè Calitz friends, schools, churches, retirement villages and other institutions. The E.P. Clivia Club committee agreed unanimously that such a wonderful gesture should be rewarded, and honoured Ericka and Ulrich with a special certificate at a function held during the last open meeting of the year on 18 November 2006. Ericka and Ulrich we solute you and wish you God’s blessings for a long, happy and healthy retirement. & Cynthia Le Rouxx - Clivia News Liasor E-mail: [email protected]; Tel: 041-360 3480

3 C LIVIA NEWS & VOLUME 15 NUMBER 4 & OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2006 Pendulous C. miniata Hello Roger, promoting clivias, given the publicity given to I am a poor photographer but I took the attached the conference in the local papers and because photo of a Clivia, (I have no idea what type it is), the local clivias were in full flower. One can which I found at a nursery at the sometimes get lucky searching time of the latest Clivia show. The among the Clivia offerings at result is not what I expected but nurseries ‘cause besides this it is unusual. particular plant, we managed The Clivia show referred to was to find a “green girl” amongst the one in Pretoria (September a bunch of plants on special for 2006 International Clivia Con- R25.00. It also had two offsets ference). I found this plant at a on it as well. & nursery in Clubview (Pta) amongst Regards a bunch called "Hybrids". Most of Tony the nurseries in Pretora were [email protected]

To Russia with Love Hello Sir [the benefactor has requested to Dear Mr Matyunin remain anonymous - Ed] Thank you for your e-mail. A hearty good evening to you on such a lovely I will make up a packet of 100 seeds and send summer evening in Mean RUSSIA. these to you as a gift. Let me know if 100 seeds About me. Yuri Matjunin. My age - 44 years. I was will be enough. born in Russia. Live in city of Togliatti (near city Kind regards of Samara) on a coast of the Great Russian River Volga near the National Park Samarskaja Luka. Dear Sir My wife Ellen works the teacher in the children’s Many thanks to you for goodwill. I am very house. She works with children to her very much grateful to you for kindness and responsiveness. it is pleasant. Children very much love her. She in group has miscellaneous children. Basically it is It is very good, that you can help children the children stayed without of the parents. Clivia seeds. Once again accept many thanks from children from children’s home. We want to frame in the children’s house a small Greenhouse. That these children could see these If you could send children other interesting seeds interesting plants and learn about them. Where of South African indigenous Caudex plants, we they grow? would be very glad to you. To receive small pleasure to children it is very pleasant. I think, Could you help me, please? I want to ask at you you such kind person, you love children. slightly the Clivia seeds for a children’s house. Children very much want more to learn about Now the beginning of July. Weather was interesting plants. Whether you can send me established steadily warm. At night the slightly seeds? temperature of air falls up to a plus of 15-18 degrees, and raises up to in the afternoon +25- I’ll be very grateful. Be so are kind doing not give 28 degrees are higher than zero. From time to up to me in my request. time it is a rain. In the winter all our plants will My postal address: be indoors where the temperature does not fall Matjunin Yuri below +22 degrees. 445004, Ogorodniy pr.12, In this greenhouse are established lamps of Togliatti, Samarskaya obl., artificial illumination. RUSSIA look forward to hearing from you again. This greenhouse is warmed in the winter. & Your Sincerely Yuri Matjunin

4 CLIVIA NEWS & V OLUME 15 NUMBER 4 & O CTOBER - DECEMBER 2006 Clivia Widow I have been re-reading “Clivia Club Newsletters” mine are the only hands that do photography and much to my amusement came upon the and handle the computer, these chores also letter in Vol. 9 No. 4 (Summer 2000), from an fall to me (while “manlief” snoozes in front of Anonymous Clivia Widow. the telly!) I really have to sympathise with her, on one Come Show Time, once again, no help from hand, on the other, I wish I had a “wife” who a supportive partner. So, all cleaning and pre- would back me up! paration is basically done by me. My garden Instead, I am the one who rushes off to assistant helps load the bakkie and off I go, meetings, and shows with “cries of joy”. Only dog and all the Cape Clivia Show! trouble is, I am also the one who has to So to “Clivia Widow”, I would like to say: “Well arrange teas and cook lunches and dinners. And Done”, keep it up and support your Clivia entertain clivia guests from overseas and locally. Loving Spouse! This hobby is far healthier than “Manlief” in this case either goes fishing or sits pub crawling and is endlessly interesting. dozing in front of the telly! Spoken by a Cliviafile. & The photography and filing thereof is rather time consuming, although delightful and Regards, necessary (easier and quicker since the advent Felicity of computers and digital cameras, sure). Since [email protected]

Yoshi’s visit to Kevin Walters

17 Greenwattle St, Towoomba, Queensland, Australia, 4350 The Editor I read the paper from Helen Marriott re Yoshikazu Nakamura. I was disappointed that his visit to Queensland Australia was not included. Mr Nakamura visited his long standing friend Kevin Walters. He made a special trip from Sydney for the occasion. He returned to Brisbane with Kevin and stayed the night with John Henderson – another great breeder. Perhaps this oversight can be included in your next newsletter. Australians can give a great “Thank you” to Kevin for his help in further breeding. Overseas growers have also benefited from his generosity and his ability to share. He was one of the founding members of what was then the Clivia Club. Beautiful year Book. & Thanking you Jeanne Mouton Variegated Cyrt. follow-up

The Clivia Society A few photos from the show at the Wilsonton Shopping Centre. Funds for Hospice. Many thanks for you in publishing my Cyrt. Variegated. Many letters have reached my address. Hope in time to be able to send seeds to all. I believe you had a fantastic show and an enjoyable time was had by all who attended from Australia. I hope some day to make the trip. Congratulations. & Kindest regards Jeanne Mouton

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STORIES BEHIND THE COVERS Front Cover - " Goblin Green red van Niekerk gave me a call to come take a look at a plant in his trust for pollination. It is an unusually Fcoloured green flower, believed to be its first flowering, grown by John Wright, a farmer in Polokwane/Pietersburg. The plant was bought from Bing Wiese and is thought to be of his breeding. Pollen of various Group 1 and Group 2 yellows was taken to it but the only successful pollination has been the selfing of the single orange bloom in the umbel. The plant is being watched to see what it does in future. & Photo and text: Roger Fisher

Back Cover This is the third plant in my near white collection. It received Gold for the 22.1.a class at the Metro Clivia Show. The peduncle and pedicles are mosty absent of chlorophyll. As with my near white in the year book Clivia 6, p73, this plant has a minimum amount of carotene in the tepals, with a small presence near the ovary. However, this plant is pure miniata rather than interspecific as in Clivia 6. My next step will be to cross the two. Oh dear! This does take time!!! 1 I have also crossed it with my deepest, brightest (true) red which is a Painted Face from Nakamura. Hopefully these two plants with limited carotene will enhance the red, or produce some true pinks. Several people have asked for pollen. Please email me directly if are interested in purchasing some pollen. Photo and text: Ken Fargher www.clivias.co.za At 14H30 the votes were counted and the Chairman, Andrè Calitz, announced Charl Malan’s magnificent pastel/yellow, a cross between C. miniata Vico yellow x C. nobilis as the best on the show. Because of Charl’s interest in the Eastern Province Clivia Nobilis, he has been using it as a pollen parent with excellent results. The photo is of a hybrid between the plant illustrated in Photo 2 and it’s sibling. Welland Cowley’s “Dawn” a superb orange/yellow originated from [C. mini- 3 ata X C. gardenii] X [C. caulesens X C. 4 miniata] was voted the runner-up to the best at the recent Annual Interspecific Show at the Eastern Cape Clivia Club. According to Welland the plant originated from seed ex Nakamura some 12 years ago. Subsequent crosses made by him between “Dawn” as the mother plant and his best Japanese yellow with vico background are starting to produce broad leafed green stemmed seedlings and he hopes to see some exceptional yellow interspecifics from these crosses. & Photos 2-4 and text: Cynthia le Roux - EP Liaisor

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GROWERS AND BREEDERS NOTES CLIVIA FUNNIES

Gideon Botha, spotted these funnies in his shade house. Photo 1 - A California green centre yellow with stigmas still attached two weeks after the florets dropped. It would appear that it was not pollinated and that the stigmas were begging to be pollinated before it died. Could be Nature’s way of desperately trying to multiply. Photo 2 - A green centre red with two deformed flowers as well as a number of florets with only five tepals. Photo 3 - An orange with a healthy leaf of about 300mm on flower stalk. Photo 4 - Moondrops with a triple floret. The Clivia never ceases to surprise [photo not usable – ed]. Len Stratford was surprised by what he recently saw in his shade house. As can be seen from photo no 5 the outside of the sepals and tepals are predominately green with some orange at the top. On the inside they are predominately yellow and in some cases a touch of orange at the tips. The flowers don’t open any further than in the photograph and the pollen sacs are always black and obviously infertile. (These can be seen in the front flower) He won’t get excited until it flowers the next time and is of the opinion that this is a freak. The plant is one of his Belgium Hybrid X Wolf seeds. Mitch Rundle found a flower that has an extra petal grown from below the ovary - see photo 6. & Greetings Cynthia le Roux - EP News Liaison

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GROWERS AND BREEDERS NOTES New for the control of mealy bug infestation for Clivia growers at home OHINOR® is a new systemic insecticide for season long control of aphids and other sucking insects. For over 10 years, Imidacloprid has been used in the agricultural sector as one of the Kmost effective pesticides to control aphids in a variety of crops. Now, for the first time, this same product, with the trade name KOHINOR®350 SC, will be available in the home and garden sector for the control of aphids. KOHINOR®350 SC will control aphids and other sucking insects with just one application as a soil drench at the base of the stem from where it is translocated from the roots throughout the plant. This allows for the total protection of the plant as well as having little or no impact on beneficial insects and earthworms. An additional advantage is that it is also relatively safe for humans and animals. KOHINOR®350 SC is the registered trademark of Makhteshim-Agan SA (PTY) Ltd. KOHINOR®350 SC contains Imidacloprid (Registration No, L7732 - HARMFUL). Contact www.mahro.co.za Tel: +27 21 982 1460. Request for images of named Clivia cultivars and varietals riza have commissoned a book on Clivias, working title ‘The genus Clivia in southern Africa − its nature and nurture’. They are keen to illustrate as many of the named varieties traded Bby breeders world wide. Breeders trading named plants are asked to assist by sending high resolution photos of plants with their names. It is planned that the book be released internationally in the course of 2007, also with a view to translation into other languages. The contributions are required as a matter of urgency in order to meet the publishers’ year-end 2006 deadline. Please mail to material to Roger Fisher PO Box 856 Irene 0062 South Africa or e-mail to [email protected] &

PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS Clivia species, interspecifics and specialities. Participate in our coordinated imports and exports of seeds and plants − Asia, ANZ, N. Am. & Eu. Connie Abel, Pretoria, +27-12-361 6406 or [email protected] Yellow Nogqaza strains from R15 to R120. Orange from R1 to R6 for mature plants. Delivery anywhere. SOUTH AFRICAN CLIVIA PLANTATION, Box 855, Hilton 3245. Call 082 955 5433. Clivia miniata. Seed R100 per kilogram. Year old plants R2 each. Roly Strachan, Box 5, Highflats 3306 or Tel. (039) 835 0085 evenings only. Swamp gardenii and miniata seed and seedlings available from various Natal and Transkei locations. Phone Andrew (039) 313 5024 a/h or cell 082 784 5401. Thurlow Flora: We have on offer a large variety of carefully bred seedlings and mature plants for sale. We specialise in pastel colours, oddities, species and original wild collected and named clones of clivia. Mail order and visitors welcome. For our latest plant list please contact Sean and Terri Chubb. Tel: 031 781 1978 e-mail: [email protected]. We also have available a few hundred different named daylily clones.

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CLIVIA TRIBUTE GOODBYE TO A DEAR FRIEND Tribute to Gert Wiese by Tino Ferero

everal years ago Gert Wiese advised me to visit Dr Bing Wiese if I happened to be looking for top quality clivias. I phoned Dr Bing and went to see his collection at the peak of the Sflowering season. I was awestruck by the beauty and quality of the flowers, the size of the umbels, as well as the vast variety of colours. Standing among the plants on my very first visit I immediately phoned Ernie Hobbs and told him not to go directly home from work, but rather first pop in at Bing’s place to see this amazing display of clivias, and to acquire some before the best ones were sold. On this occasion I had forgotten to take some money with me, but Bing said I could take as many as I wanted and that I could pay him later. I could only fit fourteen into my car, but went back a week later to pay him what I owed and to buy several more. This was the beginning of a wonderful friendship stretching over many years. I visited him a week before he was informed of the seriousness of his illness and arranged with him that I would visit him on Saturday, 2 September 2006 with Ian and Shirley Baldick from New Zealand. I even reserved an off-set of a Pottie’s Peach for Ian. This meeting was unfortunately never to be. Bing and I spent many wonderful hours on his stoep drinking tea and discussing clivias and clivia politics. He told of the times when he started to breed his own clivias at a time when top quality clivias were very scarce and hard to come by in South Africa. He acquired his first yellow clivia from a farm in the Wartburg district. Often he and other enthusiasts would swop plants and in this way they would add to their collections. Bing was very disciplined and destroyed seed that took too long to germinate along with seedlings that did not display vigorous growth. Gert Esterhuizen, I recall, once picked up a large number of seedlings from Bing’s compost heap and several of these grew to be magnificent champions. Strangely enough, Bing never entered his own plants at shows, but many of his plants shown by others won top awards. Bing once admired some beautiful Col Pitman and Nakamura yellows in my own collection, and I duly offered him plants and pollen. He however declined the offer saying that his own yellow line was in its fifth generation, and that he did not want to introduce foreign genes at that stage. The so-called ‘Polyploid’ line, developed by Bing was one of his special achievements. When I asked him why he called it ‘Polyploid’ he replied, “Because they hardly ever breed me any runts.” He bred his clivias in definite lines, and used the ‘selfing’ technique. This did not, however, mean that a particular plant was selfed with only its own pollen, but that pollen from other plants in the same line was also used. Discerning collectors knew that if a plant deserved a place in Bing’s collection, it should also deserve a place in theirs. The result is that many collections are graced with plants bred by Bing Wiese. Apart from being kind and generous, Bing was also a very wise man. I often sought his advice regarding administrative matters for both the Clivia Club as well as the Northern Clivia Club. Along with so many other friends will miss the visits to Bing’s stoep and the cups of tea that we enjoyed with him. It was a wonderful privilege and an honour to have been acquainted with such a fine gentleman who has made such a large contribution to the enhancement of the clivia in South Africa. Totsiens to a very dear friend. [I would like to acknowledge Petra (Bing Wiese’s daughter) for editing my original text and her Mom (Sionid) and brother (Eric) for giving their blessing for it to be published.] &

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ANNUAL EVENTS CAPE CLIVIA CLUB This last year has been a mixed bag for the Cape The Cape Club also staged two displays at Clivia Club, but luckily there have been more Kirstenbosch Garden. Clivia mirabilis hybrids good things than bad. were included in the displays which attracted On an unhappy note, two of our members the attention of many members of the public who play a prominent role, Toy Jennings and locally and internationally. Mick Dower, have been set back by illness. The annual distribution of seed and seedlings, We wish them both a speedy recovery. Ian coordinated by Mick Dower, increased this year Brown has retired as Treasurer. Ian has looked to +R120,000, 15% of which went to Club after the financial affairs since the inception of funds. In October the Club held an auction the Club and nurtured the Club to a healthy through the internet on behalf of the South financial state. We are very grateful to him African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI). for his untiring efforts and are fortunate that Five plants from the Apple Blossom complex and Johan Schoombee has bridged the gap and is one plant from Ngome (Clivia gardenii) grossed our new Treasurer. We are losing the members R48 500. living in the East London area who have decided The Club continues to hold regular quarterly to join the Eastern Province Clivia Club but we meetings alternating between Kirstenbosch do believe that for members to live closer to the Gardens and Durbanville. Speakers are invited action is a very positive move. We wish them all to talk on topical matters, a raffle of unusual well in their new Clivia family. plants is held and Johan Schoombee enthrals On a happy note, Margherita Blaser turned us all with his series of Colour Variations in 102. She is still pollinating, germinating and Clivia. Workshops have been held in both the growing Clivia and is an inspiration to us all. northern and southern suburbs and members Once again the Show was the highlight of the have benefited from the hands-on practical year. The Indigenous Bulb Growers Association guidance. We ended the year on a social note contributed additional interest with their display at a bring-and-braai held at Kirstenbosch. In of indigenous spring flowering bulbs. There 2007 the Cape Club will be sponsoring their were 313 entries in 39 classes. The Best on Show members by R40. was awarded to Ian Brown for his Multipetal We look forward to another busy and happy and Gerrit van Wyk received Runner-up for his year enjoying Clivia. We wish all members a green throat Yellow. We were visited by several happy and peaceful festive season and all good international members who found their way fortune in 2007. & down to Cape Town. John Winter - Chairman EASTERN PROVINCE CLIVIA CLUB EASTERN PROVINCE CLIVIA CLUB PREACHING THE CLIVIA “WORD” TO MEMBERS OF VARIOUS ORGANISATIONS AND SCHOOLS

art of our Club’s objective is to promote the cultivations of Clivia actively amongst non mem- Pbers and especially youngsters in our Region. To achieve this we have targeted Garden Clubs, Schools and other institutions with talks and demonstrations. September being “Heritage” month, Willie Le Roux has spoken the Clivia “word” and handed out hundreds of Clivia seeds to members of the P.E. Philatelic Society,

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Eventually the day, 25 August, arrived and members and friends were welcomed to the Kabega Park Primary school hall by neatly laid out tables and fantastic disco music. What a lovely sight to see old and young alike enjoying themselves and dancing the night away. After dinner, Andrè drew some lucky numbers and handed out umpteen prizes which included a R200 gift voucher and many Clivia plants and seed which were donated by members. He also auctioned wines, specially labelled for our the Algoa Floral and Garden Club and students at Clivia festival and announced Dermot Smith, various schools reaching a total of 96 adults and our treasurer as the lucky winner of the R1000 780 students. It is refreshing to note the interest draw. and eagerness shown by especially the students. As can be seen from the photos all enjoyed themselves thoroughly. Needles to say, our Clivia CLIVIA DANCE dance will now become an annual event. Since attaining Club status in 2002, The EP A very special thank you to the Calitz family who Clivia Club has been in the fortunate position to went out of their way to make this a wonderful subsidize our members with part of their annual success. subscription payable to the Society. Our Annual Interspecific Show which was held At the Society AGM held in May, it was announced from 10H00 on 22 July was very well attended that Society membership fees will be increased by the public as well as our members. by R20 per year with effect from 1st January Due to our weather playing havoc, many of 2007. As such an increase represents nearly our interspecifics flowered weeks prior to our 30% of our members’ present subscription, our show. We never-the-less managed a display of committee felt that they could not pass the full 32 excellent quality plants, charming the visitors increase on to our members and had to find a with a beautiful array of orange, pastel, pink, way to ease their burden. The wonderful idea peach and yellow coloured flowers. of having a Clivia dance coupled with a R1000 draw became a reality. Organizing started with We once again, left the voting for the best on Andrè, his wife Maxie, daughter Yolandi, their show and runner-up to best on show to our sons Wynand and Andrè junior, printing dance visitors. (See "Stories behind the Covers" Ed.) & and R1000 draw tickets distributing them to Cheers committee members. Cynthia - EP New Liaisor

GARDEN ROUTE CLIVIA CLUB GARDEN ROUTE CLIVIA CLUB SHOW REPORT

he Garden Route Clivia Club had its fourth Annual Show during the last weekrnd of September. For the past three seasons the late season was not a factor, but this year exhibitors thought Tthat most of their plants were past their peak. Nevertheless, exceptional plants were presented by 20 participants entering 238 plants in 37 categories. First, second and third prizes were again awarded in each category. A new category that attracted a lot of attention was the one for single flowers. The wide variety in shape, size and colour in the different flowers proved very interesting. This category promises to attract more entries in the future. The three judges were again Geraldine Vermaak, Diné and Coen Calitz, and were all very impressed

11 C LIVIA NEWS & VOLUME 15 NUMBER 4 & OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2006 by the outstanding quality of flowers and plants to be a great success and attracted many in all categories with the exception of the yellow participants. Cash prizes of R100- and a plant category, which was not of the same high donated by Piet Theron were awarded for each standard as previous years. The heavy rains in winner in the different age groups. Art teachers this region also took its toll and many flowers from the local schools acted as judges and also and pollen heads were damaged, making them each received a clivia plant for their efforts. The ineligible for showing. The categories were very inspiration behind this competition was clivia well represented with most plants exhibited in club committee member Ida Esterhuizen, a the apricot/pastel categories. teacher at one of the local preparatory schools. The Best on Show entry was exhibited by Malan We plan to extend this competition in the future Clivia Brothers in the category for Peach flowers to involve more schools, including secondary while their Apricot entry was awarded second and high schools on the region. runner-up. The first runner-up to the best on The club once again offered starter packs con- show went to Piet Theron for his broad leaf entry sisting of seedlings of different ages. The club without flower. The Garden Route clivia Club would like to thank all the members who appreciates the participation of the Malan Clivia donated seeds and seedlings for this venture. Brothers as they bring flowers of a very high The chairman Gerrie Brits would like to thank his standard for exhibition as well as contributing show committee as well as participating club to the public plant sales. The Garden Route members for all their hard work and support to Clivia Club had to make do this year without once again make this Show so successful. the support from Cape Town and Port Elizabeth Clubs, but we would like to encourage these ART COMPETITION two neighbouring clubs to again participate in Two years ago the Garden Route Clivia Club our Annual Show in future years, started a project to introduce the younger The layout of the school hall once again received generation to the magic of clivias. One of the a lot of compliments. Along with the garden committee members who is a teacher at one of display in the foyer, was an art exhibition by the local primary schools, taught her class about primary school pupils depicting clivias. Inside the plants and gave them each a packet of seeds the exhbition hall, the Best on Show plants were exhibited right in the front centre, while the rest of the entries were arranged on long platforms of different heights, with the centre of the hall on a lower level as the sides, leading up to the back centre stage with the very tall interspesific and gardenii species, so that all plants were immediately visible as you entered the hall. Sellers were once again accommodated inside the hall alongside the walls, enhancing the overall appearance of the Show. A great variety of plants and flowers were on sale and many visitors supported the sellers thereby earning the club a substantial amount in commission. The Garden Route Clivia Club is very proud to have introduced a special project to include primary school children in the Show. A special art competition in two categories was held – one as a colouring-in and the other a straightforward painting competition. The aim was to introduce and promote clivias as an indigenous plant to our youth and perhaps inspiring them to become clivia lovers. The competition proved

12 CLIVIA NEWS & V O L U ME 15 NU MBER 4 & O CTO BER - DECEMBER 2006 to plant. These were kept in the classroom until in each category for different age groups. All the a reasonable size before the children could take art teachers who assisted in the competition their seedlings home. also received a plant sponsored by Piet Theron. In 2005 the club invited school children to draw Photographs of the winners featured in the or paint clivia flowers and these art works were local newspaper and the awards were presented then used during the Clivia Show as decoration during assemblies by the different school in the foyer of the exhibition hall. In 2006 this principles. idea was expanded to include a colouring-in The club intends to extend the competition to and art competition and introduced at three include more primary schools as well as high different primary schools. school pupils, where the competition will be A drawn picture of a clivia in full bloom was treated as part of their curriculum. The prize made available to participants in the colouring- winning entries can then be used as posters to in competition in grades 2 to 5. Pupils in grades advertise future clivia shows. 6 and 7 had to paint a flowering clivia plant. Art Let’s hope that the seeds planted thus in the teachers were involved to inspire the pupils to small child’s mind will also develop and grow take part in the competition. All the art entries into full scale enthusiasm for clivias! were exhibited in the foyer of the exhibition hall We would like to thank committee member where they were judged by the art teacher from Ida Esterhuisen and her helpers for organizing the Outeniqua High School. this event and we wish them luck in their A cash prize of R100 - sponsored by the Clivia future planning to promote clivias amongst Club - and a plant sponsored by Piet Theron for our youth. & each winner and a winner’s rosette were awarded Gerrie Brits

JOBURG CLIVIA CLUB HIGHLIGHTS The Joburg Clivia Club programme for the year 2006 ended on the 21st of October with the prize giving and a talk followed by light refreshments. We are fortunate to have a venue at Garden World Nursery available for our meetings at which various topics were discussed on a monthly basis. I wish to thank all the presenters for the time and effort taken in preparation of their talks. The main highlight of the year is the annual flower show. The show provides us with opportunity of seeing other growers’ clivia flowers. Despite the early flowering season, we had a good exhibition of plants at the show. The number of sellers increased this year and the area for plant sales and exhibition of plants was much cooler this year with the eighty percent shade cloth cover Other highlights include the award of an honorary life membership to Meg Hart. Meg dedicated ten years to the editing of the Clivia Society Newsletter and had previously been awarded honorary life membership of the Clivia Society. We introduced a Certificate of Recognition to two members this year. This award is made to any member who provided exceptional services to the Club or Society during the year. Our first recipient was Maylene Turner. Maylene organised, on behalf of the Joburg Clivia Club, a tour to the Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens followed by a tour of some private collections for the Conference delegates. The organisation and advertising of this tour was performed by Maylene in a professional and competent manner that was appreciated by the delegates. Our second recipient is James Abel. James organised the Caulescens and Kwa Zulu tours for delegates this year. In addition to this James served as a liaison officer for the travel agent and attending delegates. We wish to commend both James and Maylene for the extraordinary services they offered to our fellow clivia enthusiasts. The Annual General Meeting of our club takes place in February 2007. We wish all our clivia colleagues a merry Christmas and a prosperous 2007. & Glynn Middlewick 13 C LIVIA NEWS & VOLUME 15 NUMBER 4 & OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2006 KWA-ZULU NATAL Gardenii Show - Kloof ho ever through that we could see so many colour variations in the C. gardeniii species. There was a spectacular display of plants of every shade of pale orange, dark orange, pastels, Wpinks and creams presented for judging. The display of 18 umbels of Alpha Gardenii blush salmon pot plant belonging to Val & Roy Thurston won Best on Show with Gem Wild Flowers taking both 1st and 2nd Runner-up and Most Points on Show, with Sean Chubb runner-up to most points. Well done to all who entered and won prizes and keep bringing along new and exciting colours. Presentation by John van der Linde A very well attended and interesting slide show was presented by John on his travels to Australia and New Zealand. It was amazing to see some really super quality plants that the folks ‘down-under’ are breeding. They would certainly give us a run for our money! Show 2006 Pietermaritzburg Due to fitting in with dates for the Conference 2006, our show date was very late in the season and exhibitors were hard pressed for exhibits as most of the show plants were over. We still managed to put on a good selection of plants inspite of this - a big thank you to all those who rallied around and helped with the setting up and dismantling of the tables etc. on the Friday and Sunday. Benching on the Friday was particularly difficult due to extremely strong winds which whipped up around the entrance making the off-loading and benching of plants hazardous. The main prize winners were - Best on Show - Marie van der Merwe with a really lovely peach green throat called “Jessie “- 1st Runner-up - Val & Roy Thurston with “Ndwedwe Eurika” and 2nd Runner-up Sean Chubb with a” '95 Series Dark Orange/Red”. Incidentally offsets of all these prize winners were offered for sale on the Auction and fetched really good prices. Congratulations to all who won prizes. Sales Tables did a roaring trade on the Saturday with many really good quality plants being offered for sale. Sunday was a bit slower due to inclement weather − but overall the show was well supported. Next year we are going to introduce a floral art display − using clivias in the arrangements. A local floral art club will arrange the display. Auction The Auction on the Saturday evening was a great success with many desirable plants being offered for sale. Bidding was brisk and many buyers went home with plants of rarity and excellent quality. Interspecific Display and Seed Competition What an amazing display of Inter-specific clivia as well as early blooming C. miniata was displayed at the August meeting and Seed Competition. Brian Tarr’s crossings Ngome C. gardenii onto miniata Watkin’s yellow and Chubb Peach, produced the most subtle shade of pale golden showers of both cascading and upright blooms. The crowning glory on show was the most spectacular pastel pinky- orange inter-specific crossing using a Robusta C. gardenii, belonging to Andy

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Forbes-Hardinge. What a sight to behold − definitely the plant I would have taken home! Etzel Nuss brought along Etzel’s Ghost, a Belgian strain Miniata, which was crossed last season with a similar Belgian strain plant grown by Val Thurston − both ‘proud parents’ are holding thumbs that at least one seedling produces a Ghost F1. Both these plants just appeared in both collections − just another wonderful surprise produced by this versatile plant. To those of us who are not familiar with the term “ghosting” refer to the cover of the latest Clivia News [15:2] and the article inside on page 7 − yet another breeding route to persue. The Seed Competition was a close race − with Tayla Chubb and Robin Holmes each coming home with 16 seeds in a single pod. So the ‘coin was tossed’ and Tayla won the call − well done Tayla - keep up the keen competition! Newcastle Show Congratulations to Liz Boyd who arrived at the Newcastle Show with a really amazing pastel, namely, Salmon Girl, and walked off with Best on Show, followed closely in second and third place by Francois van Rooyen with two really Seed Bank attractive plants. Well, done to both of you and a big thank you for travelling the long distance We had a tremendous response to the seed on a cold and grey morning. Congratulations offered for sale from the KZN Club and hope to the winners and placings of the various to continue to supply all clivia lovers with sections, Ebb Graham, Dries Olivier, Walley quality seed next season. Thank you to all who Dovey, Pat Gore, Louis Lotter, Etzel Nuss and supported us. & Henry Howard and thank you for your support. Sean Chubb

LOWVELD CLIVIA INTEREST GROUP ACTIVITIES 2006 The Lowveld Clivia Interest Group has enjoyed its 3rd year of existence in 2006. There were numerous highlights during 2006. Information sessions The three information sessions were once again opportunities for Clivia enthusiasts to learn something new. New friendships were built and Clivia seeds as well as plants were made available to Group members and visitors alike. • 18 March: Tino Ferrero and his team’s presentation on the breeding of Clivia’s was very interesting. Tino was one of the “wise men from the East” that helped to get the Lowveld Clivia Group off the ground in 2003 and it was good to have him back here again. • 24 June: Professor Johan Spies visited us from Bloemfontiein to share his knowledge on the

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genetic variation in Clivia’s. The presentation was an “eye opener” on how little we actually know about Clivia’s and their potential. The Interest Group also hosted their first internal “Interspesific” show during this session. The show will in all probability become an annual event. The event was hosted at the Fever Tree Nursery in an attempt to raise awareness amongst the public. • 22 July: Johan van der Linde visited us all the way from the Cape. His presentation on Paul Kloeck s winning plants Clivia’s in New Zeeland was very interesting and enjoyed by all. We look forward to his return in 2007. Publicity • Sue Kloeck wrote a few interesting articles on clivias and the Lowveld Clivia Interest Group which was published in the local newspaper. These all helped to raise the general awareness of clivias in Mpumalanga. • Four Newsletters were compiled and sent out to members by Maria Grové during the past Hilton Atherstone s winning plants year. The newsletters are the Groups main medium of communication with members showing the best on show, 1st and second and thus plays a very important role in the runner up plants in the category plants with day to day activities of the Group. flowers. Hilton Atherstone is also congratulated • Chris Welgemoed addressed the Sabie on his show winner, 1st runner up and second ‘Blommeklub' on Clivia’s and Clivia breeding runner up in the category plants without in general. flowers. All exhibitors are hereby congratulated • Paul Kloeck and Chris Welgemoed were on the quality of the plants displayed and interviewed on the local radio station the enthusiasm with which the plants were just before the Clivia show to raise public showed. Without the support of our members a awareness. show would not be possible, Thank you! • Johan Schoeman and Willem Froneman Membership facilitated a hugely successful Caulescens tour to Bearded Man. Both foreign and Membership figures currently stand at 65. We local clivia enthusiasts enjoyed the field trip hope to get more people to join so that we can immensely. one day become a fully fledged club. Clivia Show Year end function: 21 October 2006 The show was a combined effort of all the members of the Lowveld Clivia Interest Group. The function was hosted by Sheila de Bruin. Both judges and visitors remarked that the Thank you very much Sheila for going to all quality of show plants displayed at the show the trouble you did. It was a fantastic day and in the Lowveld did not have to stand back for your “clivia garden” serves as an inspiration to any show in the country. We are very proud all of us. & of our show and also thankful towards all the Clivia Greetings to one and all members that made this show the success D.J. M Dekker - Chairman, Lowveld Clivia it was. Congratulations to Paul Kloeck for Interest Group

16 CLIVIA NEWS & V OLUME 15 NUMBER 4 & O CTOBER - DECEMBER 2006 NORTHERN CLIVIA CLUB [Some of what follows is translated form the Afrikaans. I have left out notes of thanks. – Ed] he year 2006 was an extremely busy one for the NCC. The highlight was most certainly the 4th International Clivia Conference which we were very proud to host and which was on all Taccounts a resounding success. The Conference was very well attended and it was great to have such a large international contingent. Much was learned and many new friendships were formed and old friendships renewed and most certainly strengthened. All who attended the conferenc – both South African and international – spoke of it with due praise. We have without doubt set a good example, something that will long be spoken of and which will be bettered with diffculty. I stood here some years back wuth the boast that we would hold the best Conference yet and we have achieved that goal. The Management has decided to plough back the profits from the Cnference in research into the field of Clivias. Most of us are aware of the research and hard work being done by Prof Johan Spies of the University of the Free State. During the course of the year we had an outstanding lecture by him and he was also the presenter of a talk at the Conference. Research is expensive and so we have allocated twenty thousand Rands towards his important research. One of the highlights of the Conference was the issuing of the six Clivia stamps by the Division of Philatelic Services of the [SA] Post Office. Johan van Wyk of Philatelic Services showed leadership in this regard. The artist, Gillian Condy, provided beautiful drawings of the six Clivia species. We have certainly come a long way since the inaugural International Clivia Conference held at the Botanical Gardens in 1994, but we must not, however, forget our humble beginnings and sincere thanks and much appreciation must go to those pioneers who had the vision back then and who had enough strength and perseverance to make a success of their dreams. Our annual show was once again held at die Wilgers Hoërskool and was a resounding success. There were fewer entries this year, probably due to the show being a little later than usual, but the flowers and plants that were entered were as usual exquisite. The pastels, peaches, pinks, etc. were awe-inspiring and this certainly bodes well for the future. It was great to see that the new classes introduced by the Judging Committee were well represented. Finding a new venue is one of the many challenges facing Management and the Show Committee next year. Suggestions and input from all the members will be much appreciated. The Sellers Committee under leadership of Frikkie Potgieter provided an eye-catching sellers’ area. Here things ran smoothly and there were few problems and complaints. They can feel proud at the exemplary task they performed. Congratulations to our panel of judges. They did duty at all but a few of the various show held throughout the country. Their hard work and diligence has certainly paid off. As mentioned earlier they introduced several new categories at this years show, namely novice, first bloom, most points, best plant on show with no flower, and single blooms. This proved to be a success. At the AGM earlier this year Roger Dixon was elected as leader of the committee responsible for the drafting of a document on Show Standards and Rules. Henriette Ströh is also an elected member of the panel. Roger is also one of the editors of the Year Book and YB 8 has once again proved to be an excellent example of the editorial teams hard work. On behalf of the NCC, I would like to congratulate John van der Linde, Claude Felbert and Roger Dixon on a job well done and wish them even more success in the future. Our two Interest Groups, namely the Waterberg Boslelie Interest Group (under leadership of An Jacobs) and the Lowveld Clivia Interest Group (under leadership of Daan Dekker) each held beautiful

17 C LIVIA NEWS & VOLUME 15 NUMBER 4 & OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2006 shows in 2006. Both do important work in their respective areas to make the public aware of clivias and to spread knowledge about clivias. At the request of the membership there were more information sessions held this year. Under the leadership of Callie Krynauw an attractive programme was presented. We were presented quality lectures by, amongst others, Hennie Koekemoer, Lena van der Merwe, Prof Johan Spies, Henriette Stroh, John van der Linde and Koos Geldenhuys, all respected authorities in the field of Clivias. The lectures were always followed by interesting conversations and discussions. My sincere condolences go to those members who lost loved ones and friends during the year. The NCC lost two of its most respected members during the year, namely Chris Peters and Bing Wiese. Their contributions to the Club and Clivias in general will be sorely missed, but they will be fondly remembered in years to come. On behalf of the NCC my condolences go to their families. 2005 saw two members, Koos Geldenhuys and Frikkie Potgieter, awarded Honorary Life Membership by the NCC as a reward for all their hard work and contributions to the Club. Congratulations to them both of these most worthy recipients. They joined the ranks of legend like Wessel Lötter, Connie and James Abel. This year we will again be honoring members for their unselfish contributions of time and effort to the well-being and benefit of the Club. Wishing all members, enthusiasts and friends a wonderful festive season and may the year 2007 live up to and even exceed your wildest Clivia expectations. & Peter Lambert Chairperson - Northern Clivia Club

OVERBERG INTEREST GROUP ur group is rather small, although it has grown from our first meeting when we had only 4 new interested people, two of whom became Clivia Club Members. Basically we are an Oextension of the Cape Clivia Club with the majority of the group being old “Cape” members. However, we have some new and younger members now, who liven things up. Our get togethers are informal and we generally have discussions with hands on demonstrations. Subjects we have covered this year have been: Cleaning and germinating of seeds and growing mediums, Cleaning and Preparing plants for Showing, and John van der Linde gave us a photo- graphic show of pictures taken during his trip to New Zealand in the Clivia season. Last year we staged a quite successful display at Jessie Waltons nursery at Peregrine Farmstall at Grabouw. This year due to lack of time, only a few plants were displayed. We hope to do better in 2007 with more exhibitors and hopefully some good advertising. & Felicity Weeden [email protected]

PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS COLOURED PLASTIC MARKERS (LABELS) NOW AVAILABLE Most of us are presently using the white plastic markers (labels) on which the particulars of a Clivia plant are recorded and which is then kept in the pot for reference purposes. For easy identification of your Clivia plants, especially when not in flower, we now offer RED, YELLOW, ORANGE, PINK AND BEIGE plastic coloured markers (labels) for pots at the very reasonable price of 25c each excluding postage. They are colourfast and same shape and size as the white ones. Place your order now with Willie Le Roux tel: 041 360 3480, e-mail [email protected].

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he Toowoomba Clivia Society Inc. held its annual clivia show during Toowoomba’s Carnival of Flowers in September. The nine-day show was held in an exciting new venue this year – the TAFE THorticultural Pavilion. The venue proved to be a resounding success with the crowds way up on last year, despite the fact that the visiting crowds to Toowoomba were down 50% for the Carnival of Flowers due to the severe drought being experienced over most of Queensland. Adjacent to the clivia show was a display by the Society for Growing Australian Plants. These two displays complemented each other, one displaying and selling Australian native plants and the other displaying and selling South African clivias (originally). Although the show was held over nine days (we see most of the shows around the world seem to be over a weekend)! the clivias stood up pretty well with only a few having to be replaced. The Toowoomba Clivia Society now has over 50 members and those on duty at the show were decked out in the new club shirts, complete with an attractive club logo. This made it very easy for the keen clivia people at the show to recognise the members to ask their questions. Visitors from as far away as Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, New Zealand and South Africa (yes there were clivia people from here) as well as from other areas over Australia were treated to a superb collection of clivias from the Toowoomba and surrounding areas. This is only the third year a show has been held here in Toowoomba, and we notice as the novice growers build up their collections a much higher standard of clivia are on display. This can only improve in the future as most of the club are made up of new growers, with about seven growers exhibiting at present, but numbers growing every year. Already the society has asked for more room next year, so we can expand even further. This year, besides having a large area for displays, plant and seed sales, a new innovation was introduced in providing morning and afternoon teas. Next year we may even introduce lunches.

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The show, which was non-competitive, was They also had a nice peach Fernvale Peachie, a officially opened by Australian TV national pastel peach. gardening guru Colin Campbell. Colin was Ian Anderson displayed his ever-popular Ander- thrilled when he was told a magnificent son Peach and an interesting seedling from the miniata seedling bred by Kevin Walters (aurea cross of his peach with a yellow, which was also x Pomander) was named after him, “Colin a stunning peach. Campbell.’’ A name the plant competition was conducted The big dry Toowoomba is experiencing at the during the show, with Kevin Walters supplying moment seemed to bring out the best in the a seedling from seed from unknown parentage clivias, with all growers experiencing their best from Felicity Weeden from South Africa. The flowering for some time, proving that clivias will interspecific plant was a real eye catcher with survive the harsh conditions. bell-shaped flowers of different shades of cream One of the highlights of the show included a to green to red. Over 200 suggestions of names selection of darumas and midget-type clivias in were submitted. Going to press, a name hasn’t hanging baskets hanging from a well-designed been selected by Kevin. stand by club member Huxley Althaus. A At the moment all the props for the society’s selection of young Chinese variegates exhibited display are provided by members or hired, but by Huxley also proved an eye opener. now the society will be able to fund their own, The favourites on display this year were the as well as purchasing computer equipment. apricots, peaches, creams and the newer splash The society has been notified that a State colours, as well as some new interspecifics. Government grant of $6000 that was applied Kevin Walters had his usual great selection for early in the year has been granted. With of hybrids. His apricot Esmond Jones always this and the great financial success of our 2006 steals the show, as well as a lovely dark bronze- spring show, augers well for the future of the orange with a very dark green centre called Toowoomba Clivia Society Inc. Joy Hoffman. Kevin had some of his own The Toowoomba Clivia Society Inc. congratulates bred brilliant Sakura seedlings (cyrtanthiflora x club stalwart Kevin Walters, a clivia breeder miniata). These were in the pinkish shades of and enthusiast of over 30 years, on attaining different shapes. His beautiful large flowering the Clivia Society’s award for recognition of yellow Ruth McLennan also stood out. his contribution to the advancement of clivia. Scott Carter, a grandson from the well-known Kevin was presented with the framed award Cornford family, famous for their dark reds after the spring show by club president Kevin had several much admired Cornford reds on Larsen. display. Kevin is popular at club meetings, often supply- Two of Brian Steven’s first flowering seedlings ing a dozen or so plants for lucky door prizes. from Bill Morris’s Tango were a stunning His generosity and help to growers is much addition to the show, as well as his usual appreciated in Toowoomba also. Nakamura multi-petals. He also displayed a The society is looking forward to next year’s couple of (orange x yellow) x vico yellow show, which hopefully will be bigger and seedlings, large oranges with white streaking. better than ever. For those contemplating These were also Nakamura crosses. Of course coming to Toowoomba for the show, which he had Jordan apricot on show, which is always is held during Carnival of Flowers Week, the a “I want one’’ clivia. He tells us he will be carnival being held during the last full week in naming a lot of his clivias by next show (not September. & before time). Brian Steven - Publicity Officer, Kevin and Coral Larsen displayed several Toowoomba Clivia Society Inc. interesting miniatas – Fernvale Can Can, a large Toowoomba Clivia Society contacts are: yellow with orange tips and Fernvale Seduction, President Kevin Larsen Phone 07 54267127; a pastel orange with washed colour streaking. Secretary Bruce Newton Phone 07 46372096.

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It is with great pleasure that I report on the following activities of our Interest Group for the year 2006. We had 6 meetings during the year which was well attended by the members. Each gathering started with a formal meeting. Thereafter we had workshops on the different aspects of the Clivia plant. The evening normally ended with a social. So far we sustained the interest of all the members. Our annual Clivia Expo held at the Alma Nursery was once again well accepted by the local gardening community. This year we had a prime floor space position. We received a number of invitations to address other gardening clubs on the Clivia plant Our formal application to the Clivia Society is still pending. It is our desire to have our status changed to that of a Clivia Club Membership wise, the Interest group is going from strength to strength Wishing you all a lovely Festival Season and may all your Clivias bloom in the coming season. & Louis Chadinha WATERBERG BOSLELIE GROUP Exhibition 2006 Our yearly exhibition was, as usual, held over the last week-end of August. The judging was on Friday morning of the 25th, and the doors opened to the public at 14:00 until Saturday 15:00. The judging was done by Steve Moodie, Claude Keytell and Chris Smit. There were 174 plants in 21 groups that were exhibited, substantially more than last year. As a consequence of favourable climate the plants looked good and a high standard was achieved. This year, however, only two awards were made in each class, namely Gold and Silver. Consequent to a new venue and extensive parking in a more accessible area, the numbers of visitors exceeded expectations. Advertisements in the local media as well as street posters in surrounding towns and direction finders resulted in 620 visitors to the exhibit (138 in 2005). Six of the members used the opportunity to dispose of plants. Seen as a whole the membership is positive regarding the exhibition and full of courage for the future. & Johan Jacobs - Secretary

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CLIVIANA

trend of “Personalized Stamps” that many postal "Cliviana" authorities are now using to encourage people [First published in RSA Stamps Newsletter – this to make use of stamps for mailing their letters. is an edited version] What makes this of further philatelic interest is a string of questions that Sakkie poses in the hile still suffering from ‘spring mad- article. Let us […] see how many questions can ness’ and the beautiful Clivia issue be answered. in September it has come to our W a) What is the smallest order (money wise) that attention that the latest issue of the newsletter for Clivia growers in South Africa also contains Australian Post will accept? an article on ‘Australian stamps with Clivia - One sheet of 20 stamps at domestic rate tabs’. Sakkie Nel has received a letter from will cost you Aus$23.00 David Bearlin of the Burwood Clivia Nursery in b) What is the smallest denomination in Aussie Pambula, New South Wales, Australia, which currency that a tab may be added to? was franked with 3 Australian stamps, each - Domestic rate, currently Aus$0.50. with a different Clivia tab. These stamps were of c) Does the client/ customer obtain the whole course never issued as such but falls into a new consignment of a particular issue printed or

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are these stamps with tabs also I presume that in the case of Canada available to other citizens from the frame design will be catalogued postal countries? something along the line of South - These are personalized stamps Africa’s “Create your own Stamps” and are made to order only for of 2001. the customer who places the When will South Africa order. No one else gets them. make personalized stamps d) May the customer request that the tab be added to a specific available? future issue of stamps (e.g. Considering the fact that South clivia) or does Australia Post Africa does not, for the moment, decide themselves where and print its own stamps and the fact when they want to add that we do not have the technology - The customer decides to which available, my guess would be we stamp the tab will be added will not see personalized stamps in when placing the order. He South Africa for some time to come. may chose from the available But with a potential market in the designs. population we have it might be e) Will Australia Post consider worth investigating as an additional printing only the tab of clivia source of income. which we can then use as a Reports of Additional Clivas “Cinderella” − No. on Stamps f) It seems as if the tab is produced On the second of November James from photographs, but what Abel reported to the chat group that is the cost to add the tab to Mr. Yoshi Nakamura has reported the stamp? − It is all part of on the existence of Clivia Stamp the service. Cost of producing number 15. the sheet of 20 stamps tabs is ±125% over the cost of the Wu Jin of China and Linda Foulis sheet itself. This will differ with confirmed the issue of The Republic quantities ordered. of Taiwan stamp in 1994. g) Does the offer still stand from James is of the opinion that the Australian Post? − Yes, with Taiwanese stamp is the most regular new designs. attractive of them all. Two (philatelic) questions remain The Korean and Taiwanese issues un-asked and therefore un-ans- surely indicate a substantial level of wered. enthusiasm in those two countries, but of that we know very little! How will these Pascal Vigneron reports on the chat personalized stamps ever be group that five more Clivia stamps exist. Togo 1966 (10F) C. nobilis catalogued? Burundi 1986 (5F) C. miniata It will be impossible to catalogue each and Lesotho 2000 (6m) C. nobilis every personalized stamp. An extract from Maldives 2000 (5 RF) C. miniata the 2004 Scott Catalogue shows the Australia Roumanie 2000 (3100L) C. miniata Christmas and Koala issue of 2002. This just goes to show what we should know, A note below the issue states “labels on some but don’t know that we don’t know! sheets could be personalized for an additional Watch this space! & fee.” Connie Liebenberg

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CLIVI-ARTA Helen Sanders

ADVERTISEMENTS Society. South African members should approach their local branches. We must point out that it is Tariffs for advertising in the Clivia Society News- difficult to quote a fixed price without knowing the letter: method of payment and delivery. We suggest you Smalls (1 to 6 lines): R25.00 contact Bossie de Kock (the treasurer) via e-mail at: Smalls (7 to 10 lines): R30.00 bossiedekock@ absamail.co.za or by fax at +27 Quarter page: R70.00 12 804 8892 and list the items you are interested Half page: R125.00 in as well as the name of the country in which Full Page: R250.00 you reside. Bossie would then be in a position to A5 separate page insert: R600.00 suggest the most economical option. Australian, A4 separate page insert: R800.00 UK, New Zealand and USA members are reminded (You will be sent an account from the treasurer that they can order via Ken Smith, Dr Hamish for the appropriate amount.) Sloan, Di Smith and James Black respectively − see inner back pages for contact details. Also note FROM THE CLIVIA SOCIETY that further discounts can be negotiated with Overseas members can order back volumes of 15 of Bossie for orders exceeding 10 of a specific item. the Yearbooks and Newsletters (since 1992) via the The items listed in the table are available. &

Item Approximate price (US $)* Yearbook 8 15 Yearbook 7 15 Yearbook 6 15 Yearbook 5 out of stock Yearbook 4 10 Yearbook 3 10 Yearbook 2 10 Yearbook 1 out of stock Cultivation of Clivias 15 Newsletter after 2002 per number 1,5 Volumes 1(1992) to 11 (2002) of newsletters 10 per volume Set of volumes 1 to 10 available on request *Including postage and banking charges if paid by credit card. Contact Bossie de Kock for quotation re payments made by cheque.

24 REPRESENTATIVES OF CLIVIA ENTHUSIASTS & Australia Ken Smith 593 Hawkesbury Rd., Winmalee, NSW 2777, Australia Tel: +61 2 47543287; e-mail: [email protected] & Netherlands: Aart van Voorst, Frederick Hendriklaan 49, Hillegom, TE 2181, Netherlands. Tel: +31 252529679; email: [email protected] & New Zealand Tony Barnes, Ngamamaku, 1521 Sur f Highway 45, R.D.4 New Plymouth, 4061, New Zealand. Tel: 64-6-752 7873; e-mail: tony.john@x tra.co.nz & United Kingdom: Dr Hamish Sloan, 40 Wendan Road, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 7AF, England, UK. Tel: 044 1635 47417; e-mail: [email protected] & United States: James Black, 10606 North 166th East Ave., Owasso, OK 74055 USA Tel: 918 272-4623; e-mail: [email protected] OTHER OVERSEAS CONTACT PERSONS FOR MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION & International: Di Smith, 71 Taylor Road, Mangere Bridge, Auckland, New Zealand Tel: (09) 634 6807 or 021 231 9200; NZ Clivia Club e-mail: nzclivia@ slingshot.co.nz; personal e-mail: [email protected] CONTACT DETAILS FOR CLIVIA CLUBS AND INTEREST GROUPS & Cape Clivia Club Joy Woodward (Secretary). PO Box 53219, Kenilworth 7745 Tel: 021 799 8768, Fax: 021 761 4687, Cell: 072 487 7933; e-mail: [email protected] & Eastern Province Clivia Club Andrè Calitz (Chairperson) Tel: 082- 574 9058 (h) 041-367 4476 e-mail: [email protected] & Free State Clivia Club Hennie van der Mescht (Chairperson), 18 Mettam Street, Fichardt Park, Bloemfontein, 9322. Tel: +27 51 522 9530; Fax +27 51 436 4340; e-mail: [email protected] & Garden Route Clivia Club Gerrie Brits (Chairperson). Tel: +27 44 8746233 a/h Fax: +27 44 8707550 Cell: 082 921 7963; e-mail: [email protected] & Joburg Clivia Club Glynn Middlewick (Chairperson). 2 Willow Road, Northcliff, 2195 Tel: +27 11 476 1463; e-mail: [email protected] & KwaZulu-Natal Clivia Club Sean Chubb (Chairperson). Thurlow Farm, PO Box 126, Eston, 3740 Tel & Fax: +27 31 781 1978; e-mail: [email protected] & Northern Clivia Club Lena van der Merwe (Secretary). PO Box 74868, Lynnwood Ridge, 0040 Tel & Fax: +27 12 804 8892; e-mail: [email protected] & Waterberg Boslelieklub An Jacobs. PO Box 3893, Nylstroom, 0510 Tel & Fax: +27 14 717 3674; e-mail: [email protected] & Border Interest Group John Roderick. PO Box 2429, Beacon Bay, 5205. Tel: +27 82 567 7069; Fax: 0866124473; e-mail: [email protected] & Lowveld Interest Group Ian Radmore (Secretary). PO Box 1146, White River, 1240 Tel: +27 13 751 2051; e-mail: [email protected] & Northern KZN Hottie Human (Chairperson). PO Box 20244, Newcastle, 2940 Tel: +27 34 3181327 or +27 82 290 6332; e-mail: [email protected] & Overberg Clivia Felicity Weeden. PO Box 1468, Hermanus,7200 Interest Group Tel: + 27 28 Group. 316 3092 e-mail: [email protected] or Caroline Phipps Tel: + 27 73 221 5267 or Cell: 028 341 0014 & Welkom Interest Group Louis Chadinha (Chairperson). PO Box 2204, Welkom, 9460 Tel: 057 3576067; e-mail: [email protected] & Zoutpansberg Enthusiasts Anneke Stroebel (Secretary). PO Box 1712, Louis Trichardt, 0920 Tel: +27 83 326 6073. Fax: +27 15 516 5710; e-mail: [email protected]