More Amaryllis Blooms...

Here's C Alida. As expensive as the mature plants are, 21.00 for 5 seeds is probably reasonable. I could probably talk myself into it as a Christmas present. I love buying myself Christmas presents.

Love that Blossom Peacock, there is a silky glow to the stars.

C. Alida is a gorgeous sunset colour, could fall in love with that. I think it is better to pay a bit more for something you REALLY like than settle for 2nd best, that is really a waste of money. I am good at buying presents for other people and keeping them myself!

If you click on the 'The Clivia Store' link here you can put in your email address and get the site with seed listed

http://www.clivias.co.za/

This is a good Japanes site, from the Clivia net links

http://www8.plala.or.jp/clivia/index1.htm

trying to edit, won't do it, so if you click on that first link it goes back, just click on the 'seed source' link at left then the 'Clivia Store'

Love that Blossom Peacock! Mine is about 1½ weeks away from blooming.

In the mean time I get to enjoy this trio of beauty: Red Lion, Apple Blossom, and Dancing Queen.

Absolutely beautiful blooms Sue! Thanks for sharing your February house brighteners!
Ron

That is a beautiful group! Lucky you!

Pretty nice, Sue. Sure glad you have some late bloomers.

Thanks all!

I pretty much left them high and dry till we got back from Nevada in January....so now I have blooms and 5 more pots that have stems and 1 that I am not sure about.

They sure do help ease some of the symptoms from this nasty case of spring fever I have.

Wallaby - Tried registering at the Clivia Store and it kept coming up with an error. Tried three times with same result. Oh well, maybe next year. Have too much on my plate as it is.

While waiting for more of mine to bloom look at what I found!

http://www.usna.usda.gov/PhotoGallery/HippeastrumGallery/index.html

Enjoy, I sure did.

lilyfan-- enjoyed your pic of the three. What a show for your parlor during these gloomy months.

That US Botanical Garden site is very useful, isn't it. I think there is increased interest in Hemerocallis here in the States. Victoria Read has a great site in the UK, too. And I think 'the Brits' are generally way ahead of us in popularizing interesting plants, don't you think so, Wallaby?

I keep spraying my Hippeastrum bulbs with Superthrive solution and soaking in Hydrogen Peroxide solution hoping to hurry them along so I have something to post here! So far no luck and they are being obstinate just to deny me, I think! So keep posting all of yours. I am enjoying them.

p.s. I had no idea Clivia was such an interesting (and valuable) plant. We happened to have inherited a garden full of them at our old home in California which I totally ignored, and now I wish I had them to show off! Learn something new everyday on DG, don't you!? LOL

Nice website. love Razzle Dazzle, a "must have", don'tcha think?

I believe I saw at Parks, Clivia seed. I think the yellow was 2 seeds for 20.00 and the orange was 1 seed for 20.00. Said it took 4 to 5 years to bloom.

Melusine has just bloomed and Faro. My plans for having blooms throughout the entire winter are not working out. I planted in two week intervals and right now I have 12 blooming. I'm running out of room to put the blooming amaryllis! Some took too long, some were too soon. There's always next year.

This is the catalog pic of Faro. Sort of melony-pink.

tabasco, thanks!

I am amazed with what the British did for plain ole goldenrod! What we saw as a weed they took to heart and made a garden necessity!

Well, I sure didn't ecpect Blossom Peacock to strut its stuff so soon!

beaker, love the form on that Faro. I can see my want list getting longer. I think these bulbs have their own clocks and they don't necessarily corespond to ours.

Here is a close-up of Blossom Peacock, I think the bloom just glows.

Lilyfan, yes it does. Sort of a satiney ribbion look to it.

Oh, dear, that's depressing about Veronica Read's National Collection website. I hope everything is OK with her and she gets it back up again. It was a great source for hybridizing info. Does anyone know what's going on with that? (maybe I'll post a thread asking about it...) Maybe all the info on the site was too expensive and time consuming to keep up, or perhaps stifling her book sales or research opportunities?...

Wallaby-- you are too modest about 'the Brit' gardening industry. They are very curious folks and take things like the common Goldenrod and really see the beauty and usefulness and go for it! 'Blooms of Bressingham' for instance is great at that sort of thing. And I think the heritage of the Victorian plant explorers traveling all over the Empire has enriched the average Brit's wide ranging plant interests.

(I think the South Africans have a wonderful Hippeastrum hybridizing program going and send back lots of great new introductions of Hippeastrum to the UK first. )

And the German's have taken great interest in our 'lowly' prairie grasses and wildflowers and have popularized them to everyone's benefit, too.

We (average gardeners) here in the states seem consumed by Hostas and Daylilies and Petunias. Which are nice, too....

Too bad about your Armand order minus the Reggae! Hope you find another. Can you order from this place?

http://www.lillafiskaregatanstradgardsbutik.se/cgi-private/index.cgi?id=10&l=14

I still can't get over the Clivia prices. Just boggles my mind!

Ah well they do have it but it looks Swedish, I don't think I'll bother! I have got 3 lots of hippeastrum seed I got a year ago from someone on ebay that crosses them for his own interest, didn't get them in but am trying them now, if they grow I will have plenty to keep me busy! I just wanted ONE mature one to flower now, and that was it!

Plant hunters aside, we take your weeds and can't get your tropicals! Not a fair trade off!

Clivias don't mature quickly like some things, and the amount of seed they make isn't huge either, the slower it is the more expensive. Like new intros in daylilies by division, always VERY expensive, but if it's your thing, well, I know the feeling!

Generally from what I have read in South Africa it is Amaryllis, in America Hippeastrum, both different, but have been called the same. Got an article somewhere if i could find it!

http://www.bulbnrose.com/Amaryllis/Uphof/uphof39.htm

http://bodd.cf.ac.uk/BotDermFolder/BotDermA/AMARY.html

http://www.amaryllidaceae.org/index.htm#lis

Another interesting article from the same site

http://www.bulbnrose.com/Amaryllis/whatsnew.htm

Amaryllis pictures, a bit different, many species

http://www.bulbnrose.com/crinumz/amaryllis/amaryllis.htm

This is a good link, not got to this one before!

http://www.bulbnrose.com/Amaryllis/bulb.htm

http://www.bulbnrose.com/Amaryllis/amaryllis.htm

Good seed and bulb sources

http://www.bulbnrose.com/Roses/breeding/sources.htm

wallaby-- fascinating links. Thank you for posting them!

I spent the afternoon watering and dosing my amaryllis with H2O2 hoping to hurry them up! They still don't want to cooperate.

I think this is Dancing Queen, but I'm not sure. I've lost the tag. What do you think?
blooming today.

Whatever it is that is one spectacular bloom vossner!

Amaryllises love me, they really, really love me!




PS: Do I sound like Sally Fields at the Oscars way back when??????

This is Dancing Queen, it does look the same except yours looks a lot paler

http://www.bulbsociety.org/GALLERY_OF_THE_WORLDS_BULBS/GRAPHICS/Hippeastrum2/cultivars/H_DancingQueen/H_DancingQueen.html

My Dancing Queen was a pink. It just finished blooming the third stalk with a forth on the way. Here's the catalog picture. Mine looked pretty much just like it, maybe even a bit lighter in color.

Yes Vossner that is definitely Dancing Queen. Isn't it the most amazing flower? My sister got one this season and loved it. I went to check my flowered plants the other day (all the ones in leaf) and to my surprise my DQ from last year has a bud. I'd assumed I wasn't going to get a flower this year, so I'm really thrilled!

I'm pleased as can be with it. Wallaby, mine is not really pale but certainly not near as red as one from bulb society.

I still have another month before I see the ones in the ground bloom. I have two beds that run just about the length of the house, one in front (south exposure) and one in back. Most have kept their green leaves throughout the winter even though we had lots of sub 30 nights.

I was futzing with the amaryllis tonight and noticed on several pots that I coud see roots coming out through the bottom drainage hole. I used 6 inch pots. Is this normal and can they stay like that until I plant out in the garden for the summer? Am I going to have to use larger pots next year?

beaker the pot should only be a couple of inches more than the diameter of the bulb, but you do need a deep pot to accommodate the roots. Don't keep the compost too wet either, if you have it stood on a saucer with standing water that will encourage the roots to seek it. They should be OK, perhaps best to leave well alone rather than disturb them, if you try moving them now the compost might drop off and they don't like to be disturbed.

Well, they haven't been standing in water and they haven't been too wet. The six inch pots are also six inches high. I haven't seen any six inch pots that go taller; at least not in the regular clay pots. Hum...Well, I won't worry about it until next year, but I wonder if I should move them up to the next size.

They've been growing like crazy for the past few weeks. It's getting to be a regular jungle in here. I came home tonignt and not-Hercules flower stem was snapped off at the base of the stalk. This is the forth stalk and it had 5 huge blooms. They're now sitting in a vase next to the sink.

I've been giving them periodic doses of the amazing H2O2 formula. Wonder if that has anything to do with it. Started seeing a few of those little flies and the peroxide did them in. Gosh, and I haven't even begun to feed them because I used the Miracle Grow with the fertilizer in it. Suppose to last for three months or so. I was just thinking I better start feeding the ones I potted in November. Best go with the time release kind.

beaker you sound to be having a lot of fun! Can you stake the blooms, they do get heavy and the stems are quite hollow and crisp so would break easily, a bamboo cane down the edge of the pot with loosely tied string would do it.

If you look at the catalogue pics you have, the pots are very deep in comparison to the diameter, most will show some roots at the bottom anyway. You don't really need to go for a bigger diameter, too much sitting water can rot the bulb. Do you have any of those really deep pots that Clematis are bought in?

Your not-Hercules sounds very prolific!

Yes, I wish I knew his real name. I'm afraid Not-Hercules is going to be the name he's stuck with. I did have a stake in the pot, but I guess someone forgot to attach it to the plant after the last stalk flowered. Now I wonder who that was?

You mean the plastic ones that I always throw out? I'll have to make a point of keeping them from now on. I think they'll be OK. I'll just have to keep my eye out for tall, narrow pots for next year.

Very pretty Amaryllis everyone. I only have one blooming now but I just left it in the same pot on the floor that it was in last year and withheld watering from late summer until a couple months ago and now it's blooming again!

Nice one Steve! Now I feel I must have one, don't care which one, just ONE! I had one years ago, it rotted over summer when I left it outside, perhaps leaving it on the floor is better! Got my eye on one on ebay going cheap......

Thanks Wallaby - I have three others which have sent up leaves. One of them has a bud coming up but it's only a couple of inches out of the bulb. You should get some and leave them indoors; they're so easy! I left one in the ground last year and it actually returned and bloomed but was so ragged looking I won't do it again. The 2nd one I planted outside never came up.

I just saw a few of mine that's doing the same thing a couple of inches up and it has a bud already...I wonder whats wrong with them...I just hope they bloom...

Loretta...

Loretta, that's normal. Some varieties actually send up flowers before the leaves

love them all , and have a knack for killing every bulb i get ,
Its just a gift i guess

Here is my first Amaryllis bloom this year. Don't know the name ,but it pure white in color.
Patti