Alstroemeria – Rock & Roll

Rock & Roll® Alstroemeria is a truly striking variety that brings colour and contrast to the garden from spring through to early autumn. With its dramatic combination of variegated foliage and vibrant flowers, it’s a standout feature wherever it is planted.

Its variegated foliage is a distinctive yellow fading to white with a green edge, creating year-round interest even when the plant is not in flower. As the season progresses, masses of brilliant red blooms appear above the foliage, producing a spectacular display that is impossible to ignore. The eye-catching combination of green, white and red makes Rock & Roll Alstroemeria particularly popular for adding festive colour to the garden during the holiday season.

A prolific and long-flowering performer, Rock & Roll Alstroemeria produces an abundance of blooms over many months. There are always plenty of flowers to enjoy outdoors while still leaving enough to harvest for beautiful indoor arrangements. Combined with its attractive variegated foliage, the long-lasting flowers make exceptional cut blooms, bringing fresh colour and elegance into the home.

Easy to grow and rewarding year after year, Rock & Roll Alstroemeria is perfect for garden beds, borders and decorative containers, delivering months of colour with very little maintenance. Whether enjoyed in the garden or displayed in a vase, this outstanding variety is guaranteed to make a lasting impression.

Award Winning Plant

FLOWERS & FOLIAGE

The eye-catching foliage opens yellow, then fades to white, all the while sporting a deep green edge. Masses of 60-70mm (up to 2¾") dark red flowers are held on multiple showy white stems and flowering repeats from spring through to late autumn. Cut flowers, though not fragrant, are long lasting.

PLANTING TIPS

You can plant Alstroemeria Rock & Roll from part shade to full sun, preferably in free draining, crumbly soil. Once established, pulling spent flower stems out from the base encourages more flowers. To promote new vigorous growth, cut to ground level in late winter.

WAYS TO USE THEM

Mass plant Alstroemeria Rock & Roll in the garden for graphic effect. Fill containers and position them for maximum impact – near entrances or outdoor eating areas. This alstroemeria is a great potted gift and when established, a good source of cut flowers.

SHAPE & SIZE

This is an attractively shaped alstroemeria - compact, bushy and clump forming. Once mature it will be 80-100 cm tall and 50-70 cm wide. If you’re planting Alstroemeria Rock & Roll for a massed effect, space them 50 cm apart to exclude weeds.
Zone 8-9

FOOD & WATER

The needs of this alstroemeria are very moderate: a soil that’s average to moist, just not boggy or very dry. It loves a soil that’s full of organic matter and if possible, to be given a dose of a slow release fertiliser in spring and again in late summer.

PESTS & DISEASE

While this alstroemeria isn’t susceptible to any specific diseases, it’s worth keeping an eye out for slugs and snails. Since it is frost tender, and deciduous in cold climates, where winters are very cold it will need protection. And although it can cope with scorchingly hot summer days, it appreciates some shade if available.

Landscaper tips

Rock & Roll Alstroemeria’s foliage alone makes it a great candidate for massed planting at building entrances
Where there’s demand for a festive display, use this alstroemeria’s visual punch to fill the space with green, white and red
Alstroemeria Rock & Roll is a brilliant container-garden plant, either alone or teamed with other highly textured foliage
In linear plantings, alternate rows of strappy foliaged plants with lines of Alstroemeria Rock & Roll

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