• Sales of seed from selected plants for both the advanced collector and the person starting a new interest in clivia. • Sales of plants and seedlings of selected Clivia. • Sales of bulk volume of seed to commercial nurseries and Landscape Contractors. • Research and procurement of specific seed and plants to customer’s needs.
We will also help reputable Clivia enthusiasts through the use of our e-commerce system to promote and sell their seed and plants.
At Vrijehof
It is our goal to produce and sell quality clivia for both the discerning collector and leisure gardener that enjoys to be spoiled by the beauty of clivia. Our plants have been bred both for quality and improvement of various important characteristics.
Pollination is done by hand and employing breeding strategies to improve through pollinating only with selected pollen on pre-selected parent-plants. We apply a rigorous approch in pre-selecting parent plants for further breeding. Each plant is pollinated by hand only with selected pollen from the breeding plantation.
Over time we were furtunate to obtain a large part of the Clivia collection of Nick Primich, as well as high quality plants from other breeders. We use these plants as a baseline to improve and produce new quality hybrids.
At Vrijehof we also collaborate with other clivia enthusiasts and cliva nursuries to be able to bring you exciting offers.
We Collaborate with
This year we are indeed proud to offer seed, seedlings, offsets and mature plants from a number of collaborating clivia enthusiasts and nurseries, together with ourself.
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Our new seed list is available for download. Click here
We will be updating our seed list shortly with more seed offers from our collaborators, including Chris Viljoen.
You may place your order by sending an e-mail with the seed order numbers and quantity to clivia@devry.co.za - I will then confirm your order with you.
The items will also be added to the online shop during the next week. You may also pay using your VISA or Master credit card using the Setcom safe payment system. Please indicate in your e-mail should you want t use this payment method.
News Letter No. 2Vrijehof Clivia2 May 2009 Seed Harvest In approx. four to six weeks time we will start harvesting our seeds. So this is the time to tell you what seed are being offered.
Seed on Offer We have top quality seed on offer from ourselves and our collaborators.We also have some very rare seed on offer.
What Seed are available on the Online Shop- www.vrijehof.co.za/catalog? From ForryhillForryhill has constructed a very special list of seed. Some seed have never been offered before, some may never be offered again and some seed were produced by very rare plants.Top of this list is the seed of the rare Naude’s Peach crossed with Bonny’s Peach. Forryhill owns an offset of the original clone and is one of a handful of collectors that do own a Naude’s Peach. This peach produces interesting flowers as the flowers have two colours – the outside being different from the inside. Quite rare for a C. miniata. See image of a Naude’s Peach sibling below. Secondly Forryhill is making available seed from Bonny’s Peach crossed with various other peach C. miniata that could prove to be interesting, if not superior peach siblings. The story of habitat Bonny’s Peach is available on the Forryhill website at www.forryhill.co.za . Gawie Lötter, myself and Nick Kruger agree that Bonny’s Peach, such as BPG02, is the top class habitat peach available today. The best of the best. Forryhill has over years proven that Bonny’s Peach is a top class C. miniata Peach(image below) and today it has a proven record of extraordinary siblings bred from this superior genetics base. Seed that are on offer are: ForryhillDream Peach x Primich Peach Forryhill Brides Dream Peach x Bonny’s Peach Bonny’s Peach x Cameron Peach xTipperary Peach xVictorian Peach and reverse crosses. x Forryhill Pastels Also available are seed from selectedForryhill Peach F1’s that are hybrids between Bonny’s Peach and selected Forryhill Yellows. This year the seed are produced by pollinating these Peach F1’s with BPG02 again. Expect some of the best Peach siblings from this line breeding program. No collector should miss this rare opportunity to obtain some of the superior genetics on offer from Forryhill. From Chris Viljoen Chris Viljoen has put together a real show of green throat flowers with the seed items on offer. There are still a few packets of seed from the sought after Green Ice available. Chris has a number of top class green centred plants which he has been pollinated with some interesting plants, such as Bertie's Bronze. Also of interest will be a number of true breeding peaches and very good reds. Those of you looking for a good interspecific plant to grow and breed with, do not look further as Chris has a few packets of Marie’s Monster to offer. From Vrijehof We are releasing for the first time some of the plant genetics from the Nick Primich plant collection. Top of this list is the Poor Man's Peach that Nick bred. We have showed four plants at major local shows, NCC and Metro and received 1st and 2nd prices in class for these Poor Man's Peach plants. Seed from these plants are on offer. This year we are offering seed from our peach miniata breeding program. So be on the lookout for some special hybrids. In addition we are offering some nice dark red seed.. Top of the list is the seed from Nick Primich’s named clone "Volcano". This is an exceptional plant, not only because the flowers are of an exceptional red colour, but also because this plant's leaves are straight and broad such as the Chinese collectors value. From Utopia Carry Kruger offers some seed from wonderful interspecifics and colourful C.miniata hybrids. There are some wonderful seed on offer not to be missed. What New on our Websitewww.vrijehof.co.za We have upgraded our website so that we could offer you more image information on our plants and seed offers. You can downloadthe images of seed parents that you need for your records. Should you need any other images then please contact us to request images. Commercial Nurseries We do cater for more than Clivia collectors. On offer is bulk seed items specifically intended for commercial nurseries. Please contact us at clivia.devry.co.za, should you have any interest.
Posted by ChrisdV on Sunday 03 May 2009 - 19:44:30