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Products > Clivia miniata 'Tessa'   Clivia miniata 'Tessa' - Peach Clivia     [2nd Image] Habit and Cultural Information Category: Bulb/Tuber/Rhizome etc. Family: Amaryllidaceae (Onions) Origin: South Africa (Africa) Evergreen: Yes Flower Color: Peach Bloomtime: Winter/Spring Fragrant Flowers: Yes Height: 1-2 feet Width: 1-2 feet Exposure: Shade Summer Dry: Yes Irrigation (H2O Info): Medium Water Needs Winter Hardiness: 25-30° F Clivia miniata 'Tessa' (Tessa Peach Clivia) - An evergreen bulb-like perennial that forms large clumps 2 feet tall and wide with 1 1/2 to 2 inch wide long dark green blunt-tipped leaves. Typically a darker orange flowering species, this unique peach colored flower form typically commences flowering in mid to late winter and continues through early spring. This cultivar is characterized by erect medium width leaves and flowers with apricot petals that are of medium width that are yellow towards their bases. This tough evergreen plant is best suited to dry shaded locations in fairly frost-free gardens but it will tolerate situations with regular irrigation as well as winter temperatures into the low 20s F. In colder climates plants can be brought in during the winter. Clivia miniata 'Tessa' came from famed Santa Barbara clivia breeder Dave Conway (1930-2006) who first released it in 1989 and we have been building stock on it since first acquiring a plant from Dave Conway in 1995. Dave named most of his plants after female family members but we don't know his family relationship with the woman this plant was named for. Dave shared many of his plants with us and his 'Lemon Chiffon' was a plant we used to cross with a yellow Joe Solomone's hybids to create our breeding line of seed grown yellow Clivia (see Clivia miniata 'San Marcos Yellow' for more information on these plants. The accompanying photograph on this page was taken by photographer and Clivia breeder James Comstock.  The information that is presented on this page is based on research we have conducted about this plant in our library and from reliable online sources. We also consider observations we have made of it in the nursery's garden and in other gardens we have visited, as well how it performs in our nursery crops out in the field. We incorporate comments that we receive from others as well and welcome getting feedback from anyone who may have additional information, particularly if they know of cultural information that would aid others in growing  Clivia miniata 'Tessa'.     [MORE INFO]