Ansellia africana blooms

[proteanorchid]

Here are some of my Ansellia africana blooms from late Spring. One of the plants had more than ~60 flowers. I was very happy with that one's indoor success.
I am going to try to grow a few of them outdoors during the summer for the first time, so hopefully that goes well.

[Dimples]

Beautiful!

[Roberta]

I love the color variations within the genus. I have one that is opening now... this one plant blooms in the fall (well, almost wnter) as well as spring, several other cultivars only bloom in spring for me. Mine grow outside and do fine, I think that my climate is pretty similar to the Western Cape.

[proteanorchid]

I love them too and I also love their fragrance. I've been collecting different patterns and looking for strongly fragrant ones. The very dark and very lightly spotted ones have been hard to find, but I'm on the lookout. I have one variety that I think is supposed to bloom in autumn, but hasn't done that so far.

Indoor and outdoor ones seem to be thriving at the moment - lots of new growths, although one did initially get sunburnt after the move
Yes, I think we have similar climates. They are quite hardy I have seem them happily growing outside (various levels of exposure to sunlight) in the NE parts of the country where they occur naturally. But the winter rain over here means I'll have to bring mine inside (or figure out some kind of cover for them) before the winter.