Just bought: (in the co-op a few weeks ago)
1Pasadena
1 Aphrodite
1 Dancing Queen
2 Appleblossom
3 Minerva
2 Red Peacock
2 Picotee
Already had:
Pink Diamond
Red Lion
Orange Sovereign
And some Peachy Pink one I was told is an African one. I have no idea. lol
This message was edited Oct 24, 2008 8:58 PM
Can't believe the poultry thread beat us Part 2
Yes it is a spider lily or a swamp lily. The grow in the creek near my house and some how I ended up with one growing among my amaryllis-with it is related to. Like water. Remind my spring and I will send you one.
Mitten-clad dahlianut will just drool from afar over the spider lily sigh.
Wow, wow, wow.....will it grow indoors in Iowa?
I thing you could grow one in a pot with out holes in it. Mine only bloomed after the hurricane this year. They must have a spell on wet. the creek near by is tide.
I don't know for sure but if the clump that I have is large enough it is worth a try. It is related to the amaryllis. Once it turns cold here I will did it up and see if it is all one clump of bulbs. The leaves look the same as the Amaryllis.
Mitten-clad dahlianut will just drool from afar over the spider lily. MItten-clad dahlianut will not introduce another tender bulb into her garden cuz her cold room is full and she can't find her grand-total-of-one amaryllis at the moment.
How fascinating - I have never heard of them. Of course, it is too cold here. That is so strange that it only bloomed after the hurricane. Like the sunshine after the storm. Nature is amazing.
I did not water much this year. The ones in the creek have bloomed off and on all year. The water comes in and out, so the bulbs are setting in water part of each day.
I was afraid of that wren. I live in drought sigh.
Do like I do for water lovers. Get pots that do not have holes or place a plastic bag in a large pot. That large red hibiscus is in one so it stays wet. And I have a button bush that likes to stand in water in one.
Ma amie (my friend) water luvers can be done like dinner in one day here. Weird but true. It's so dry with no humidity and no dew. I can get callas to bloom but nothing that is a true wet plant. HOWEVER I have entered this plant in my book of lists as a MUST HAVE for when I put in a water feature ^_^. Sometimes I'm so brilliant don't you think? 'Where there's a gardener there's a way' I always say.
Just let me know and if i still have them I will send you one.
Good Morning NE from the Buckeye State...43* here and sunny after an entire day of drenching rain yesterday...We needed it badly...
You gals may want to look at Lowes for that Spider Lily...I bought a bag with 2 bulbs in it...It is also called a Peruvian Daffodil, Narciso/Peruana Ismene..The bag says it is a product of Holland...It is to be planted in the early spring, 3- 4 inches deep, after the ground warms to about 50*, in full sun....and they are hardy in warmer zones, but to dig or heavily mulch in extreme climates...It was $3.34 for the 2 bulbs...The fragrance is absolutely beautiful...I had them when I lived in Clearwater area, FL mixed with the blood red Amaryllis around the perimeter of my screened porch, and they are stunning...
Hope you all have a wonderful day! I am off to get some more yard work done, and then finish cleaning off my porch for the winter...
Sorry the peruvian daffodil and the swamp/spider lily are two different plants.
The Water spider lily is a native plant "Hymanocallis caroliniana" I have both
They did it again!!!!!
It's a hatching frenzy. It's sorta like a food fight but with baby chick spectators as far as I can figure. They're having
o and there's dancing too ^_^
This message was edited Oct 27, 2008 12:03 PM
and nobody throws baby chicks....
oh ya of course. Only threads and cupcakes are zinging. Baby chicks are tenderly cared for.
I had 2 hatch last night. :-) Black frizzles.
But the more exciting thing of yesterday was that I got 2 llamas, and one is due in February.
'Llamas' as in the largish spitting mammals that hang out in Peru or 'llamas' as in a kind of chicken? If it's a chicken, do they have bad hair?
oh claire! how i envy you. llama's!
like this
This is cool about llamas and chickens http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~llama/poem.html
I luv the polish ones. That's my kind a doo ^_^ http://farm1.static.flickr.com/58/204387584_d2a026e640.jpg
Yes, llamas as in the largish spitting mammals that hang out in Peru, except ours are actually combined Chilean, Bolivian and US llama breeding. And so far, they have not spit on either of us!
One is very dark brown and named Hazel. The other is named Cabernet and she is the pregnant one and she is a lighter reddish brown. I will be taking pictures soon. It was too dark yesterday once we got them settled in.
Claire, you do know when they lay thier ears back flat, that means they are mad and going spit.
schickenlady - I'm not sure. Yesterday one of them spat on the other one. It had some bits of chewed grass in it but it didn't seem to stink. They got cross with each other when we were driving them home in the back of the Ford Ranger. Quite a fit for 2 llamas.
No, Kathy, I didn't know that, but now I do - thanks! I will watch for it.
They also hum.
Are you going to hatch the baby llama by yourself?!?!? If they are both girls does this mean you will only have one new one? or are you gonna take them to visit studly boy llamas? ie are you going to had a herd or just a couple?
Yes, we will put the llama in the incubator closer to the due date! ROTFL....
Seriously, we have learned that llamas have about the easiest births in the animal kingdom! They are just walking around eating grass and hanging out as usual and suddenly a baby plops out and they turn around as if to say "Hmmm....where did that come from? I didn't notice that before...." She should do fine on her own.
These two girls are half sisters (not from the same dad) and are registered with the llama association. We would like to see how it goes with this first baby llama and then once we have decided how much we like having llamas, we will consider the studly boy llama visiting option. If this baby llama is a boy, we will probably either "fix" him or sell him. It takes them a while to develop their parts. We would not want to have any chance of inbreeding.
If we really like them, a small herd is possible. We primarily got them to act as goat guardians - they can be quite aggressive with predators on their "land" and will protect goats and also apparently scream if they feel unable to handle a predator, which apparently wakes the dead and would make us run outside to see what the heck was going on.
LMBO ^_^ Sounds like llamas have the birthing thing down pat. Screaming guard llamas I would like to hear.
LLamas do not spit at their Humans.. Camels do... LOL
LLamas and Alpacas are quite the animal crop here in OH...Once I get rich, I am going to get some to raise for the fleece....
Moxon!!! If that child is a male.....It has MY Name on it from birth!!! His name is Merlot!!!
Yes I mean it.....MINE YA HEAR????
Da Genrule
Claire, ya better come talk to my squirrels. the rate i'm going it will be this time next year before i have enough pee cans to send you
General Dusty, Ma'am, yes indeed! The only thing is, Ma'am, with all due respect Ma'am, that we had decided if it was a girl we were going to name her Merlot. However, it is quite negotiable, of course, your excellency!
Please put that flight boot down now. Please. Ma'am.
The last offspring of this llama was a boy, and it was black and white and curly, even though she is reddish brown. Does the color make a difference, General?
Maybe I could send you a pee can guardian llama....
i would love that! jumping up anddown doing happy llama dance
Perhaps I could find a tape of a screaming llama to scare away Damien the Spawn of Satan TreeRat. I haven't tried that yet hmmmmmmmm.