Lilies: Callas are going bloom happy...., 1 by BamaBelle

BamaBelle wrote:
My sis just brought me several crinums and Peruvian Daffodils. I alreayd had one or two of each....and the plants she brought ahve tons of babies int eh pot, too, so I am going to have lots of pretties!

Some of the crinums make a big flower similar to an amaaryllis...the ones I got from my family homestead taht my grandmother planted are lavender to purple (the depth of color varies from year to year....might have soemthing to do with the sopil sicne they were beside her hydrangeas and she often manipulated the ph of the soil to change teh colors of her hydrangeas)....others have lots of small, spidery flowers. I have a white crinum that makes the samll psidery flowers that I got from Tropicman as part of a trade. Can't wait for them all to bloom! There is one house between here and my cousin''s house that has a HUGE crinum bed....once they get established they myltiply like rabbits if they like the soil. Another house on the same drive has Red Hot Pokers that are twice as tall as they are supposed to be. If I can ever get over there by myself, I think I'll knock on the door and ask if I can have some cuttings. I have some Red Hot Pokers taht I bought at the nursery, but they haven't bloomed and they are about the size of small daylilies. I don't know if that house has an unusual cultivar or if the plants are just doing that much better than 'normal' plants.

Here is a photo of my crinum and Peruvian Daffodil haul. I hiope to get them i the ground this evening, btu I am pretty tired from digging out another bed ealrier today and then beign attacked by a whole mess of the biggest fire ants I have ever seen. I had to take some Benadryl to control the reaction and now I'm feeling like I could lie down and sleep for a week.