An old plant, this suffered a setback and has just rebounded over the last year or two to bloom again. The phrags just didn't like the CHC as well as I had thought they wold and had gradually gone downhill over the years and so I went back to the formula which had worked well previously, discarded due to the difficulty of working with it, fine bark/rockwool/sponge rock. This division was a gift from my oldest friend maybe 30 (?) years ago. He had had it for 10-15 years at that point, and had originally acquired it as a division from an older local grower, who said he'd had it for a number of decades, so I would suppose the plant is maybe 80 years old at least. One of the finest pre-besseae phrag hybrids IMHO, along with Schroederae and Cardinale. So happy to have it flowering again!!
