Bulbs: Spider lily identification help, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
There is the alstroemeria ligtu hybrids that some here seem to have pushed for many years, they can be fairly hardy, but are tall. I got a potful in 1998 of a dwarf on, no name but it looks like A. species can't remember which, but probably a hybrid. I put it in an old baby's metal bath tub, outside and there it stayed. It has kept returning but tends to get a bit weaker, so I took some up and overwintered in a shed last winter, and this. They will always do better if kept out of he real cold weather. It has started to get bigger, it may have been one I grew from seed off it I got in the first year. They grew easily but had trouble overwintering in a greenhouse as young plants, I think it was a very cold winter their first year and I lost most. They make a longish fleshy white tuber in cluster, and increase outwards.

There is also A. psitticana, a species supposed to be fairly easy here, and a variegated one which I almost bought from ebay but didn't want to pay the price at the time with postage.

In 2004 I bought a really nice one from a supermarket, it also lives outside and came back last year not quite so well, I will take some up this year to protect it.

This is the first one, which is growing now in the shed, it does flower early if kept under cover