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 hybrid to create our breeding line of seed grown yellow Clivia that we call Clivia miniata 'San Marcos Yellow'. For more information on the species see our listing of Clivia miniata. The accompanying photograph on this page was taken by photographer and Clivia breeder James Comstock. 

Information displayed on this page about Clivia miniata 'Tessa' 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.