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Finally the new bulbs have arrived and more still due!Got my order from
John Scheepers last week and from Blooming Bulb just yesterday after a
short stop over in Georgia. A GF and I went together on an order to
save more money!
Potted so far are:
LEMON & LIME
EXOTIC STAR (after potting up a small pup on its own)
FAIRY TALE
EMERALD (Cybister Hyb)
LA PAZ (Cybister Hyb)
BRIGHT SPARKS
LEMON SORBET
FAN FARE
LITTLE STAR
Not yet potted but in storage are:
ALFRESCO
ZOMBIE
NYMPH (Also getting WHITE NYMPH)
RILONA
SUSAN, these last two are humongous "mother bulbs" of two of my favorite very old cultivars.
Coming in a couple of weeks:
LUNA
MATTERHORN
GIRAFFE
EVERGREEN
RIO NEGRO
CHICO (Last three are Cybister Hybs and Chico is a duplicate because I like it so much!)
My
orders were placed before I decided I really loved the Cybister
Hybrids, but from now on they will probably be all I will buy other
than a few specials, like H cybister! I also have a penchant for the
doubles, but I am quite picky about the ones I really like! had 5
doubles and have increased that to 8, but they can really take a lot of
space s the bloom stems get quite tall. I am liking the so called
"greens" more and more and I also like several of the H. papilio
hybrids.
I hope to begin sharing images of my collection as they
bloom, probably beginning with 'Exotic Star' although several of my
small bulbs and newer arrivals are ahead of it in development. So it
could be 'Lemon Sorbet' with it's deep green throat and cream to white
petals. At any rate I should have hippies blooming beginning in about a
month and continuing until early to mid-Spring.
My older bulbs include 5 of my Minerva X White Christmas seedling that I have kept; 4 double flowering varieties, one specie + 10 or so seedlings from an f3 generation cross of H. straitum, eight single flowering cltivars from small to huge flower size and 3 Cybister Hybrids + 60 or so seedlings from Chico X Ruby Meyers that I made last spring. (More red and longer, skinnier petals). I do have more than one bulb of spme varieties so I do actually have several more than just singles of each variety listed. Very few are box store purchases, but from various bulb growers. Blooming Bulb has the more affordable prices, though their bulbs are smaller, John Scheepers seems to have a very good variety and decent prices, bulbs are nicely sized and I love the way they pack their bulbs. Still awaiting delivery of an order from Royal Colors and that won't be here for another 3 weeks.
My bulbs of H papilio are growing new foliage now and I am hoping to see bloom this season, but then I always hope to see bloom, I just seldom do. There are three blooming sized bulbs in the pot and one small , new pup. I have done all I know to do and grown it the way it likes to be grown, darned thing just refuses to bloom. Some day I may get the "Improved" version, from someone who has grown them (mature pups) or who has proven seedling bloomers.
All of the seedlings, old and new, had grown very well this summer and the little ones are still growing well. I do need to "tent" their end of the shelves though to increase he warmth and humidity for them, but I really don't want to encourage too rapid of development as I don't want to have to divide and re-pot these until I can put them outside late next spring and give them more light that what they have been getting. I grow them in shade while the mature bulbs get at least a half day of sun. Some even get grown in the ground (those with issues). I want a raised bed just for the hippies summer home, but space is scarce for such things; the Daylilies still take preference.
Who else is buying or otherwise increasing their Amaryllis Collection? Anyone reducing theirs?
Rebecca
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