Description
Great pastel lemon calceolaria for the border.
We released our own strain of this wonderfully large flowering border Calceolaria in spring 2019. Its a real delight and eyecatcher with its thick stems leading to large cluster heads of pastel lemon flowers raised high over large lemon foliage. This once established is hard to damage as survived even the harshest environments we could throw at it. We recommend placing in the border or large alpine rock garden. We have also had great success in containers although it will out compete other plants. A real joy to have for sale.
Flowering: Spring-Summer
Hardiness: Hardy
Height: 40-60cm
Spread: 40cm+
Further information:
Cut back slightly into foliage in early October to shape plant for following years blooms. This plant will reshoot from the base.
Common Name: Slipperwort / Slipper Flower / Pocketbook Plant / Pouch Flower
Life Cycle: perennial
Family: Calceolariaceae
Foliage: obovate
Basic Colour: ( yellow )
Flower Colour: yellow / red
Natural Flowering: April – July
Winter Hardiness: Fully Hardy
Height with Flowers: 60cm
Soil Requirements: average / moist / well-drained
Soil ph: acidic / neutral
Location: container / cottage garden / border / rock garden
Usage: ornamental / bee food plant
Pruning: cut back old flowers to encourage further blooms
Tolerates: drought tolerant
Origin: Chile – Peru
Patricia M. (verified owner) –
Never knew these came in different colours will definitely be ordering some more. Absolutely beautiful and they smell like lemons.
CLARE (verified owner) –
Very healthy looking plant. Safely delivered.
Ann (verified owner) –
Excellent condition as always, many thanks
Anonymous (verified owner) –
Heidi Cooper (verified owner) –
Nice healthy plants
Gary Filmer (verified owner) –
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Lesley Hall (verified owner) –
Angela G. (verified owner) –
Excellent, strong, healthy plants. Lemon Drops proved to be the hardiest of my Calceolaria collection through this last, challenging winter.
Anonymous (verified owner) –
Growing in pot, not decided on final position yet
Carl Kingston (verified owner) –
Charlotte Jones (verified owner) –
Great value for money. Very well packaged and quick delivery
Gail Wiliams (verified owner) –
Sara Maltby (verified owner) –
Penelope Millson (verified owner) –
Plants supplied were healthy and with good root balls.
Steve (verified owner) –
To early to tell needs time to grow , deliver time over a week ,
Luke Whiting (store manager) –
Hi Steve
Thank you for taking the time to review your plants. We hope you get many years of joy from them as they establish in your garden.
Regarding delivery we currently ship all orders form the previous week on the following Wednesday. So if ordered on a Monday it is 10 days till DPD drop it off at your door and if ordered on a Sunday it appears 5 days later. We send in this way due to having 600 varieties it is easier and more environmentally friendly to pick up all previous week plants on the Monday. We then quality control them and place in individual orders for packing on the Wednesday. This is all in the delivery terms on our Website (even I forget to look at other website delivery pages, so please don’t worry you missed this) and on the invoices emailed to you. We hope to be able to ship plants quicker in future but haven’t found a more efficient process yet. Please accept my apologies for the current time frame.
All the best
Luke
Theresa jane Leigh (verified owner) –
Beautiful healthy plant
Joy Scothern (verified owner) –
Sue Grant (verified owner) –
They were nearly out of their pot when they arrived. Packing not so good. Plants are recovering and 1 is flowering.
Julia Flaherty (verified owner) –
Absolutely perfect! Well thought out eco packaging. So pleased they us DPD for deliveries – the best. The flowers were in great condition, some already flowering. The staff were incredibly helpful when I changed my mind on one of the plants. My first purchase buying plants on-line and it was a brilliant one. Thanks so much 🤩
Matt C. (verified owner) –
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Marianne Hall (verified owner) –
Michael Charvonia (verified owner) –
As before
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Vera B. (verified owner) –
David Chandler (verified owner) –
good strong plants
Lorraine Rudd (verified owner) –
Mellie Lewis (verified owner) –
Plant arrived safely, not yet in leaf or blooming but a good pot full of strong roots and shoots, really excited to see this in flower.
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Mrs G. (verified owner) –
Good size plant.
Barbara S. (verified owner) –
Exceptional service – very pleased with the care and attention given to my order.
Anne (verified owner) –
As it’s now going into dormancy it obviously is not at its best but I have repotted it and will take good care of it. I look forward to lots of new growth in the Spring.