About
Achimenes 'Stan's Delight' is a bushy perennial that grows up to 30 cm in height. It features toothed, mid-green foliage and produces vibrant, double red blooms measuring up to 3.8 cm across during the summer and autumn months.
About the genus
Achimenes are perennial plants with rhizomes that store nutrients, producing long, trailing stems. These stems support simple leaves that appear either opposite or in whorls. During the summer and autumn months, the plants produce conspicuous, salver-shaped flowers that emerge from the axils of the leaves.
Growing conditions
- Sunlight
- Full sun, Partial shade
- Soil type
- Loam
- Soil pH
- Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
- Soil moisture
- Moist but well-drained
- Aspect
- South-facing, West-facing, East-facing
- Exposure
- Sheltered
- UK hardiness
- H1C
Plant details
- Plant type
- Houseplants, Conservatory Greenhouse
- Habit
- Bushy
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Height
- 0.1-0.5 metres
- Spread
- 0.1-0.5 metres
- Time to full height
- 1 year
- Suggested uses
- Cottage and informal garden, Hanging basket, Houseplants, Patio and container plants, Sub-tropical
Care notes
- Cultivation
- Grow under glass in either peat-free, multi-purpose compost or peat-free John Innes No 2 loam-based compost in bright filtered light. To bring rhizomes into growth in spring, temperatures of 16-18°C (61-64°F) are ideal. Water sparingly until summer when plants should be watered freely. Apply a balanced liquid fertiliser at quarter strength at each watering
- Pruning
- No pruning required
- Propagation
- Propagate by division of rhizomes in spring or stem tip cuttings in spring (see softwood cuttings)
- Pest resistance
- May be susceptible to aphids, glasshouse red spider mite and thrips
- Disease resistance
- Generally disease-free