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Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: johnralphcarpenter on August 16, 2015, 12:53:04 PM
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Amaryllis belladonna just emerging after last week's thunderstorm.
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Four flowering spikes this year - excellent!
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Got back from holiday on Tuesday evening; to find this.
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Very pretty. A friend of mine has a lovely display of them under a South facing wall. He lives around ten miles from me in a coastal village but an awful lot drier than me.
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What exactly do those A. belladonna want? I just repotted about 20 big bulbs in a huge pot. They flowered once in 20 years.
johnw
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Mine took 10 years to get going but now flower every year.
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Bought one bulb of A. belladonna 'Johannesberg' in 1993. Flowered first & last time on 17 Aug 2013.
johnw
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I have a big clump, but the dry bulbs I got from Bill Dijk seem to need another year's recovery to flower. I see them occasionally naturalised in grassland round and about, e.g. on Mount Hobson in Remuera (a small extinct volcano in a suburb of Auckland).
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The belladonna lilies in our garden have started to flower, a month earlier than last year but I think that was the abnormal year!
cheers
fermi
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Some closer shots of the dark pink belladonnas
cheers
fermi
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Perhaps it's because my eyes are getting older - but I am really enjoying the darker colours.
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Signs of Autumn: Amaryllis belladona is starting to flower.
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Now flowering.
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I've just received a lovely fat bulb (450g) of Amaryllis belladonna 'Durban' - a self-indulgent birthday present to myself. When I ordered it I was planning on planting it at the base of a south-ish facing wall but I'm now worried that I will kill it and wonder if I should keep it in a pot until I've got some offsets to play with or be ridiculously rash and twin scale the thing. Any suggestions??
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Hi Gail,
I've been told that these sorts of bulbs are diffeicult to twin-scale due to the mucilage they produce.
I'd opt for patience and waiting for an offset or two,
cheers
fermi
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Thanks Fermi,
that sounds sensible...
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Hi Gail
I have had Amaryllis belladonna at a south-west facing wall in Denmark since 2010, lots of leaves, no flowers yet. It survives the winter with some mulching, lowest air temperature was minus 18 degrees C for several nights. But I must say that I prefer the hybrid with Crinum moorei (xAmarcrinum memoria-corsii) that grows next to it and flowers year after year in October and November.
Anders
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That's interesting Anders.
My unnamed clone(s) of A. belladonna also grow quite vigorously but rarely flower, maybe only once every 3-5 years. However they did so this year and fortunately the weather has been fairly dry and calm so the flowers are lasting well.
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That is useful to know Anders; so long as I don't actually kill it I think I will be happy. I only moved here this year so don't yet know how low temperatures will get; I'm hoping that the close proximity of a huge maltings will provide a favourable microclimate!
Your x Amarcrinum is lovely - is it fragrant?
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Yes, both of my xAmarcrinum memoria-corsii clones are fragrant, one is the clone 'Howardii' the other one was unnamed, but there is little difference so it might also be 'Howardii'. And I guess that my Amaryllis only survives the Danish winters because I mulch with 15 cm of dead leaves and some evergreen prunings on top.
By the way, has anyone ever tried to cross Amaryllis belladonna with Crinum bulbispermum to get Amarcrinums with striped petals?
Anders
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The Amaryllis belladonna 'Durban' that I bought in 2016 and assumed I'd killed as there was no sign of it at all last year, has got two flower spikes. Very lovely with a light sweet fragrance. It's leaning away from the wall a bit - if it were straight it would be 100cm tall.
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The Amaryllis belladonna 'Durban' that I bought in 2016 ...
Absolutely fabulous 8)