Plant in light shade and provide regular watering. Hardy to 26-28 ° F - needs a hear frostless climate if grown outdoors but can be overwintered indoors.

Clivia miniata 'French Hybrids' are a strain of clivia with broader leaves than for species plants of Clivia miniata. The name can be traced back to Monrovia Nursery from the 1970s but we have never found a reference citing who in France may have developed it and while it has described as taller than the Belgian hybrids, which are also wider leafed than typical Clivia miniata, the differences between these two groups of plants seem minor at this point. The original Belgian strain were more compact plants with shorter wide thick leaves having mid orange colored flowers, but more recently plants grown as Belgian hybrids tend to have longer thinner leaves very similar to what are sold as French hybrids. As Harold Koopowitz states in his book Clivias (Timber Press, 2002), "A number of other strains masquerade as Belgian hybrids. While some are dwarf, they usually do not have the same flower configuration. In California any clivia plant of European origin is sometimes called a Belgian hybrid. 'Belgian Hybrid Orange'. We received our original seed as being French Hybrid, so we continue to call it by this name today. 

Information displayed on this page about Clivia miniata 'French Hybrids' is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.