Plant Encyclopedia

Other Names:  Peruvian Lily

Group/Class:  Inca Series

Brand:  Proven Winners

Description:

This vivacious dwarf variety presents lovley white blooms with green tips, and throats of salmon pink, with gold blotches; mounded, crisp, dark green foliage provides contrast; blooms last well as cut flowers

Ornamental Features

Inca Lucky® Alstroemeria features showy bracted white trumpet-shaped flowers with salmon throats and a gold blotch at the ends of the stems from late spring to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its attractive pointy leaves remain dark green in colour throughout the season.

Landscape Attributes

Inca Lucky® Alstroemeria is an herbaceous annual with a mounded 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.

Inca Lucky® Alstroemeria is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• General Garden Use
• Container Planting

Planting & Growing

Inca Lucky® Alstroemeria will grow to be about 10 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 12 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 14 inches apart. Although it's not a true annual, this plant can be expected to behave as an annual in our climate if left outdoors over the winter, usually needing replacement the following year. As such, gardeners should take into consideration that it will perform differently than it would in its native habitat.

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 is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. Consider covering it with a thick layer of mulch in winter to protect it in exposed locations or colder microclimates. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.

Inca Lucky® Alstroemeria is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor pots and containers. It is often used as a 'filler' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination, providing a mass of flowers and foliage against which the thriller plants stand out. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.