Mature and flowering
Specimen plants
Named crosses, judged lines, and single specimens with a documented history.
From the breeder's register
Clivia with a
pedigree.
Collector-grade Clivia for sale from the private collection of Daniel Pretorius in Gauteng, South Africa. Every plant is recorded in the breeder's register and carries a scannable tag, so what you buy arrives with its provenance.
The collection
A living register, kept since 2004
Offsets and seedlings
Grow them on
Offsets clone the parent; seedlings carry the cross forward. Both trace back to the register.
Provenance
Plants available now: 34
Every plant for sale carries a printed QR tag. Scan it to open that plant's own listing, with its recorded cross and history from the register.
The journal
Notes from the greenhouse
6 min read
The six Clivia species
All six Clivia species grow wild in southern Africa. What separates a species from a cultivar or a colour class, where each one grows, and what habit and flower form mean for the grower.
6 min read
The Clivia colour classes, explained
From Red through Green, with green throats, bicolors and appleblossoms along the way: how the Clivia Society colour classes work, why a plant is only classified at the open flower, and how the catalogue filter follows them.
5 min read
Growing Clivia from seed: from berry to first flower
Ripeness, cleaning, sowing, warmth and the long wait: how a Clivia berry becomes a seedling, why the seedlings vary, and how each seed lot's cross is recorded.