All About Auriculas



Our Auriculas are at last budding up. Normally I reckon the last week of April to be be the peak week for Auricula flowering. This year it looks like being the second week of May.
Do feed your auriculas in the build up to flowering. Use tomato fertiliser at half recommended strength every two weeks - we give them their first dose at the end of February.
With the weather getting warmer we have just ordered our first batch of Phytoseiulus persimilis, a beneveolent mite which controls red spider mite - in a hot dry summer red spider mite can ravage the foliage of auriculas under glass.
The photo above is of one of my very favourite auriculas Auricula Dale's Red - a super velvety red, border auricula; this is a tough easy plant which should be in every garden - looks wonderful with Pulmonaria Blue Ensign - our plant of the week.

Click here to see our plant of the week Pulmonaria Blue Ensign.
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Regards

Michael Loftus