Gloriosa Rothschildiana, 'The Flame Lily' is an exotic-looking, trailing lily of pinkish-red and yellow petals with lime green foliage. Gloriosa Lilies are commonly known as flame lily, fire lily, gloriosa lily, glory lily, superb lily, climbing lily, and creeping lily.
Gloriosa Lilies are perennial herbs that climb or scramble over other plants with the aid of tendrils at the ends of their leaves and can reach 3 meters in height. They have showy flowers, many with distinctive and pronouncedly reflexed petals, like a Turk’s cap lily, ranging in colour from a greenish-yellow through yellow, orange, red and sometimes even a deep pinkish-red.
We advise planting your Gloriosa rhizomes in a pot and bringing on indoors until it is in established flower form and then it can be put outside on the patio during the summer months. You will need to add 3 stakes for each bulb for the plant to scramble up and attach itself to. We advise planting them in a triangle formation.
Gloriosa lily bulbs are a rootstock, horizontal rhizome. The root and shoot come from the same end and need to be planted downwards on a 45 degree angle (see diagram). Again in a triangle formation would be best.
Gloriosa is the National Flower of Zimbabwe.
Harts' Hint
Start off growing your Gloriosa indoors before moving it ouside in the summer months! Be careful not to knock the tips of the Gloriosa as they are very sensitive to any abrasion.
Summer Flowering Bulbs are delivered in Spring
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Summer Flowering Bulbs are dispatched from the end of February to the end of May.
All orders should be dispatched within 3-5 working days during this time.
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