Amaryllis belladonna

[Heinie]

Here is one of my Amaryllis belladonna flowering now.

[Armin]

Heini,
very nice. I killed mine some years ago during the winter as I left them outside unprotected...

[johnw]

Heini - Superb Amaryllis belladonna.  I fear for mine planted against the house. The ground is frozen deeply and the cold came before the leaves surfaced, those indoors are fully leafed.  Hopefully I can fatten them up to flower someday.

johnw

[pel1]

Just bought a dry bulb of this-looking forward to those flowers!

[fermi de Sousa]

Heinie,
that's a nice form.
We have 3 types in bloom at present but I only have pics of this one so far,


The colour is a bit deeper than in the pic. Hopefully I can get some more pics this evening.
cheers
fermi

[Heinie]

Very nice colour Fermi. I would like to see your other colours please. I have some with much more white in the flower but I prefer the pink ones.

[WimB]

Really nice plants, I wonder if mine (see: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4096.msg107874#msg107874), which are planted outside, will have survived this winter (which has been the hardest in years)

[Maggi Young]

I do hope they are fine, Wim.... I remember thinking when you showed the picture that I would  not risk it outside..... though I am proving every day that I am having little success with some things  under glass, so perhaps I should be more bold!  

[WimB]

Maggi, they survived for a good 5 years outside...  so I'm hoping too. I try a lot off plants outside. I'm always curious which plants survive our climate. And you don't have to care for them as much as when you plant them in pots. 

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi Heinie,
Here's the deep pink Belladonna again


Next is one I got from my friend Ruth so it's called "Ruth's Deep pink belladonna"; the flowers deepen in colour after they open


This is a seedling, presumeably of Ruth's,


The last is a form I got as "Multiflora Alba" which looks similar to "Hathor" but usually carries more flowers,


cheers
fermi

[ArneM]

They look great, Fermi! Need to try some this year.

[Michael]

Fermi, is that the bright pink one that you sent me seeds?
They are growing fast btw!

[fermi de Sousa]

Fermi, is that the bright pink one that you sent me seeds?
They are growing fast btw!

Hi Michael,
I think I would've sent seed of the one at the top - the very deep pink which apparently was a "local" selection made by someone in the Kyneton area, about 25 Km south of Redesdale. Gl;ad to know they are doing well - I haven't flowered seedlings of this one so I don't know how close to the parent they'll appear. Most of these hybrids are believed to be crosses of A. belladonna and some forms of Brunsvigia but an article I read awhile ago suggested that they may actually be crossed with Cybistetes longifolia

A second seedling has flowered which is much lighter than the one I posted yesterday,


But it appears to be from the same parentage. I'll have to see if the colour deepens as it ages like the parent plant.
cheers
fermi

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great flowers Fermi and Heini !!

[fermi de Sousa]

A second seedling has flowered which is much lighter than the one I posted yesterday,
But it appears to be from the same parentage. I'll have to see if the colour deepens as it ages like the parent plant.
cheers
fermi

Here's that second seedling a few days later - the colour hasn't deepened and I quite like that "blush" effect,


And this poor specimen of "Hathor" has struggled up besides the front gateway - I'd forgotten I'd planted it there!


More spikes of "Hathor" are arising in the same bed as the seedling ones.


cheers
fermi