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18-20" tall. A showy hybrid, Eucomis 'Reuben' (Hebrew for "first born") has big spikes of dark purple buds opening to rose-pink flowers. This Pineapple Lily plant was bred for use as a cut flower production, but has proven to be an excellent garden plant. Provide a compost enriched, moisture retentive soil in a full to part sun location. Protect from the wind. Cold hardy in zones 6b-9. Be sure to mulch well for winter in zone 6. Hybridized from South African native species.
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Overall rating: 4.5 / 5 from 2 reviews.
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"These Pineapple Lilies were such a fun surprise. The purple leaves and strong center stalk that started looking from the bottom up is so cool and pretty. The small flowers bloom in a wave til they reach the top of the stalk and put out a pineapple looking top. No trouble or maintenance requires. Planted these suckers and they did their thing."
"I'm not sure folks understand that these bulbs, like other plants, can take a year up to 3 years to become well established, may not bloom for a year or more depending on size of bulb, when planted and how it is cared for. It blooms from the bottom up, only lasts a couple weeks and then you just have seeds forming. Needs lots of sun and moisture during summer for flowers to form and fill out or you will get small, poorly colored, small size flowers with little fragrance. It's high moisture means it has to be planted in very well drained soil because it is also root and crown rot susceptible - doesn't like shade, doesn't like heavy, wet soil. Needs to be treated with fungicides from spring to fall especially if growing in less than appropriate conditions. I would plant in well drained, amended soil with a pH of 6 to 6. 5 or my preference, in large containers or make up a bed mixing one of these in to the native soil: PRO-MIX HP BIOFUNGICIDE + MYCORRHIZAE (high porosity, 65-75% spaghnum peat Moss, perlite, etc); or PRO-MIX HPCC BIOFUNGICIDE + MYCORRHIZAE (high porosity, 65-75% spaghnum peat Moss, chunk coir, Perlite). Both of these drain well, are already pH adjusted (limestone added), have biofungicides and mycos in the mix for the first season. These will allow you, if used in containers, to water well without much danger of over watering. The same can apply to mixing with native soil provided you mix enough in -not knowing your soil, it's hard to say. But I have heavy clay that stays wet for weeks after full heavy day of rain and I mix 50-50 or 75-25 native soil (dig out a bed of native soil then pour out equal amount of one of the above. Mix together well and add back to the bed and let settle for a few days and a good rain/watering before planting. This is so the bulbs don't settle too much when planting. Also use a product like Espoma Bulb Tone when planting. These bulbs don't like to be under 20F so really zone 8-10 is safer than zone 7 in a super cold year."
