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Alstroemeria 'Roselind' (Little Miss Roselind Peruvian Lily) A dwarf variety with 4- to 10-inch-tall spikes of bright rose-pink flowers with dark lines and yellow basal spots on the petals. Plants have a crown of slender rhizomes that attach to succulent storage roots below. Each year new unbranched shoots arise from the crown to produce narrow leaves along the stem and an umbel of flowers at the tip.
Plant in full sun to light shade and water regularly to occasionally in late spring and early summer. Tolerates fairly dry conditions in coastal gardens but vigor and flowering are best when plants are irrigated. Hardy to 15-20° F but tolerates lower temperatures if well mulched. When trimming or cutting Alstroemeria for flowers it is best to pull the stems out, so they break off below ground at the crown to stimulate the formation of new shoots but do so carefully so as not to put out pieces of the rhizome itself.
The Little Miss Series of Alstroemeria comprises dwarf plants that were originally hybridized by Robert Adrian Goemans at Chichester in Sussex, England. Mr. Goemans selected this plant in 1998 from the results of hybridizing an unnamed selection from a breeding line named 'Aurea' to an unnamed dwarf Butterfly-type cultivar. They are all pretty small with Alstroemeria 'Tara' that reaches up to a foot tall considered to be the tallest of the Little Miss series that was marketed in the U.S. by the Henry F. Michell Company. We received this plant as 'Rosalind' but the correct spelling is 'Roselind' as noted in its US Plant Patent listing.
The genus Alstroemeria (at times spelled Alstremeria) was named by Carl Linnaeus, often called the Father of Taxonomy, for his friend and student Klaus von Alstroemer (Clas Alströmer), a Swedish baron. Alstroemeria come from two areas within South America with summer growing species restricted to eastern Brazil and winter-growing plants from central Chile with common names such as Peruvian Lily, Parrot Lily, or Lily of the Incas. This plant received U.S. Plant Patent PP15,554 that was filed on March 15, 2002 and has since expired. We grew this plant from 2011 until 2014.
This information about Alstroemeria 'Roselind' displayed is based on research conducted in our horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We also will relate observations made about it as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we receive from others and we welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they can share any cultural information that would aid others in growing it.
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