Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: Maggi Young on January 10, 2012, 02:03:32 PM
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Jim Waddick shared this link on the pbs .... looks an interesting site for Hippeastrum fans..
http://www.emaryllis.com 8)
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details of a book that may be of interest:
http://www.nerineandamaryllidsociety.co.uk/52589.html
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Hippeastrum papilio flowering in the house.
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Hippeastrum papilio
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Arnold, very beautiful clone, is yours a commercial form?
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Josh:
Don't know I think it was a PBS BX distribution. I'll check my files and see if I can track it down.
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BX distribution. BX 250 # 14. From Bob Hoel
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We had rain on Sunday night and by Wednesday morning these rain-lilies were already up and will be in bloom tomorrow! Hopefully there is enough pollen to do some cross-pollinating!
cheers
fermi
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This morning, the Habranthus tubispathus are open and in front are the spears of Lycoris incarnata about to explode out of the ground!
cheers
fermi
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Others are also opening:
Habranthus tubispathus "Salmon Pink form"
cheers
fermi
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Fermi, I love to documentation!!!
Where do you live?
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Fermi thats so lovely, aren't you lucky ;D
Angie :)
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Josh,
I'm in Central Victoria, Australia - the the South-East part of the country.
Angie,
thanks, yes, I'm lucky as these are plants that grow without us having to do much for them except divide them when they get congested.
This morning more were open,
Zephyranthes "Grandjax"
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Habranthus martinezii
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and Zephyranthes macrosiphon (I think)
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cheers
fermi
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Some more pics from the weekend,
Habranthus martinezii
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Habranthus robustus
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Habranthus martinezii being meanced by a Habranthus robustus "Russell Manning"
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and the result of that pairing!
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Zephyranthes primulina
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and for something different, Lycoris incarnata
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and the first of our local Calostemma purpureum
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cheers
fermi
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More Amaryllids!
Dark form of Amaryllis belladonna
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White Amaryllis belladonna
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A "vacant" block nearby which is resplendent with belladonna lilies!
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Back in our garden, Lycoris sprengeri
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Calostemma purpureum
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cheers
fermi
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Rats! Even vacant lots do better with Amaryllis belladonna than me. :'(
johnw
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LOL!! you brightened my day with that one John. Very good, ;D ;D ;D
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Rats! Even vacant lots do better with Amaryllis belladonna than me. :'(
johnw
Me too, John.
These bulbs are so suited to conditions in Southern Australia that they survive for decades on complete neglect. Often you will come across patches of belladonnas in "the bush" where a house might have stood a generation or two ago but virtually no sign of habitation is left except some "non native" plants like belladonnas, narcissus and roses!
I struggle to get regular blooms on ours despite providing "ideal" conditions! At least they are more tolerant of our frosts and droughts than some of the more tender nerines and lycoris.
cheers
fermi
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Can't wait till summer comes here
Roland
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More belladonnas, seed raised and showing some variation
cheers
fermi
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More now in flower,
Calostemma purpureum, a second, taller growing clone
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and the rarer, or at least shyer to flower, Calostemma luteum, first time in about 5 years!
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cheers
fermi
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Congratulations Fermi !
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Stunning Fermi
I have to wait 4 more years
The seeds Pat send me are just 10 cm high
Roland
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Fermi,
My C. luteum are on their third season, how long do they take to flower from seed?
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Probably 2 or 3 years
depends on your feeding , soil , potting soil
Roland
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Fermi those flowers are beautiful. I keep saying this you are so lucky.
Angie :)
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Fermi those flowers are beautiful. I keep saying this you are so lucky.
Angie :)
Yes, Angie, I am! I don't grow these - they grow themselves.
Lycoris sp. red
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Lycoris elsae
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cheers
fermi
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I rescued some ?Hyacinths from an old garden. Is it possible these are just forced bulbs planted out or better still ......?
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Mark
Looks for me China Pink
Roland
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I haven't seen the Calostemma luteum before - lovely Fermi.
Calostemmas on the way to Eden Valley are all in seed whereas just outside our driveway the really dark pink ones are just starting to open up.
The whitish pink ones have mainly gone to seed now. Not as many flowered as last year.
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Where are the pictures Pat
I have to wait 4-5 years for your seeds do flower :D
Roland
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Will take camera with me tomorrow Roland. :)
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Took some photos today of the Calostemma purpureum for Roland ;)
But I have different programmes on this laptop now and I can't find a simple resizer that I had before. Anyone know of a simple one I can download? Not particularly keen on this Windows Live Photo Gallery programme.
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PIXresizer Pat free and easy
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Tiny pick free
the best and easiest I found till now
I use 600x800 for the fora
you see direct the results if you want
Roland
http://www.efpage.de/eTinypic.html
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Cyrtanthus breviflorus start flowering here
Roland
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Roland I downloaded the resizer and am working out how to use it
I thought I had the name on the file.
Took these photos a couple of days ago of the mass of the dark pink Calostemma purpureum and the smaller not so common whitish one.
You can see how the bulbils(?) form and then become so heavy that the stems bend over and the bulbils fall off on the ground.
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Looks almost as a weed
fantastic pictures Pat
happy to see how they grow in the nature
I am still searching an easy program
to rename more pictures in one go
In the moment I use FastStone Image Viewer and F2
but there must be an easier way
Maybe one of the other forum members
knows an easier way to rename multiple pictures
R
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Excellent pics, everyone. Yes, just getting into the Amaryllids area for the first time in months. ::)
Fermi, those rainlilies are glorious, but those Lycoris. I am so jealous. I was so pleased with one stem on my Lycoris incarnata this year for the first time..... then I saw your lot. And my 2 stems on Lycoris elsae are bleak compared to yours. Wow!!!!!
Love those Calostemmas, Pat. The 2 white bulbs you sent me last year both put up flowers this year, which really surprised me given they'd been moved last summer. Short stems, also affected by our cooler and wetter summer I think. No other Calostemma flowered for me at all this year, and I had hoped more would. :'( Very, very strange summer!!
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Pat, try jpge resizer. Free and extremely simple. You can resize tenths or hundreds of pics in one operation.
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Zephyranthes primulina