Plant Library

Other Names:  Rock and Roll, Princess Lily, Peruvian Lily

Description:

This intriguing variety presents stunning scarlet red blooms, with gold throats, contrasting spectacular variegated foliage; blooms last a long time as cut flowers; a perfect selection for borders or containers

Ornamental Features

Rock 'n' Roll® Alstroemeria features showy bracted scarlet trumpet-shaped flowers with orange overtones, gold throats and burgundy spots at the ends of the stems from late spring to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its attractive pointy leaves emerge chartreuse in spring, turning creamy white in color with distinctive dark green edges throughout the season.

Landscape Attributes

Rock 'n' Roll® Alstroemeria is an herbaceous perennial with a rigidly upright and towering form. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

This is a relatively low maintenance plant, and usually looks its best without pruning, although it will tolerate pruning. It is a good choice for attracting bees, butterflies and hummingbirds to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Rock 'n' Roll® Alstroemeria is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• General Garden Use
• Container Planting

Planting & Growing

Rock 'n' Roll® Alstroemeria will grow to be about 24 inches tall at maturity extending to 32 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 24 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 18 inches apart. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 5 years. As an herbaceous perennial, this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter, and will regrow from the base each spring. Be careful not to disturb the crown in late winter when it may not be readily seen!

This plant does best in full sun to partial shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It may require supplemental watering during periods of drought or extended heat. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.

Rock 'n' Roll® Alstroemeria is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor pots and containers. With its upright habit of growth, it is best suited for use as a 'thriller' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination; plant it near the center of the pot, surrounded by smaller plants and those that spill over the edges. It is even sizeable enough that it can be grown alone in a suitable container. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.