Roscoea cautleyoides
Cautleya like roscoe
- Height × spread
- 0.3m – 0.5m × 0.2m – 0.3m
- Position
- Full sun
Availability
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About this plant
These are rather curious and showy small plants. Their flowers look a little like those of an iris but with lax petals. The plant has an upright growth habit with fleshy petals that are somewhat like those of a tulip. The flowers come in summer and are in shades of white, yellow or purple. They are of variable height up to around half a metre.
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- No
- Shape
- Bell, Column
- Height
- 0.3m – 0.5m
- Spread
- 0.2m – 0.3m
- Season of interest
- Spring, Summer
- Evergreen
- Deciduous
- Garden style
- Rock garden
- Sun or shade
- Likes full sun, likes part shade
- Soil type
- Loam (normal)
- Soil pH
- All types
- Drainage
- Moisture retentive soil, Well drained soil
- Winter hardiness
- Varies, most are hardy
- Borders & containers
- Borders
- Use for
- Wall cover, Bee attraction
- Hazards
- No
AutumnNow
Autumn · Outdoors
Apply mulch
Use bark chips or leaf mould to add an organic mulch around the crown of the plant.
A mulch is a covering that can: protect the soil surface from rain, heat and cold; deter weeds; provide nutrients. Organic indicates that material has vegetative origin e.g. manure, compost. Synthetics i.e. plastics, or stones are often called mulches.
Spring
Spring - late · Outdoors
Feed with slow release fertiliser
Apply a general purpose slow release fertiliser, spreading it around the root area of the plant as it is coming into growth. (Or apply a liquid feed at regular intervals throughout the growing season.)
This is a simple way to provide a nutrient boost as a single annual procedure.
Spring-Autumn · Outdoors
Water to keep the soil moist
For best results, this plant needs soil that is always moist. Water deeply and regularly as soon as soil appears dry. Even for established plants in the ground, a dry week can cause problems with some soils. Check plants in pots more often, especially in hot weather. Or install an automatic irrigation system which will do the hard work for you, even when you are away on holiday.
Without regular watering some plants never fully regain their beauty.
Spring - early-mid · Planting
Divide when too large
The plant can be divided if it becomes too large or another plant is required. This may involve physically dividing the clump in two, removing offsets or small bulbs or dividing rhizomes. The new plants can be grown in pots or planted in the ground.