Bury your clivia like this in sand, and you won't have to worry no matter how high the temperature gets

May is gradually coming to an end, and temperatures are starting to climb. Those of you who have clivia at home may already be worrying about getting it through the summer. I learned a little trick from an old gardening friend, and this is exactly what I did with my clivia at home last year, and the results were especially good.

1. Give your clivia a change of "location"

After summer arrives, be careful to give your clivia a change of "location" and move it to a spot at home with partial shade and partial sun for care, and also make sure the ventilation is good. In the morning, when the sunlight is not strong, you can put it outside to get two hours of sun, then move it to the partial shade and partial sun spot. Around 6 in the evening, move it again to a spot where the sunlight can reach it for a bit of sun, but be very careful that it must never be exposed to strong light at noon.

2. Use water to improve the environment around your clivia

When summer arrives, the environment around your clivia will become relatively dry, and this is not good for the clivia's growth, but you also can't water it too much, to prevent root rot. So, you can often splash some water on the ground to raise the indoor humidity, and you can also spray some water around the clivia's pot. This way, you can keep the environment around the clivia humid, but don't spray it onto the clivia's leaf core, to prevent the core from rotting.

3. Use the sand-burial method to fight the temperatures in "furnace" regions

For regions that are not especially hot, the above two methods are enough to get your clivia safely through the summer, but for especially hot regions, they are still not enough. Then you can try the sand-burial method. We need to prepare a larger pot and some sand, put the clivia together with its flower pot into the larger pot, then bury it in sand, covering the sand just a little above the top edge of the clivia's pot. Then, in the morning and evening, spray a little water appropriately on the sand to cool down the clivia.