Zephyranthes and other Amaryllidaceae 2010 - 2011

[Alessandro.marinello]

Flowering for me now Chlidanthus fragrans although not as good as in previous years.bye Ray

Ray, I only the first year of plantation have had flowers, by now from four years I give me alone leaves

[Ray]

Hi Gail & Alessandro,like you I have had a struggle to get these to flower,some years ago I read that they needed potassium to flower well,so I gave them heaps and they flowered and have flowered reasonably well up until this year.This year has been really wet and have more frosts than normal also a cool summer by our standards.It seems to me that to get these to flower they must have a good source of potassium, dry winters, no frosts and hot summers.bye Ray

[Paul T]

Ray,

I had them flower here a few years ago, so the "no frosts" definitely isn't one of the necessities.  Only had them flower here the once though, as far as I recall.

[santo2010]

Thank you all for the wellcoming!
Here are some pictures of a specie of zephyrantes that I like very much. Zephyrantes Americana.
It blooms with no leaves and after the rain.

[santo2010]

Hy, Can somebody help me ID this Zephyranthes:

[Cris]

Hi, finaly I saw my Habranthus flowers... I am not sure if it is Habranthus martinezii, can you help me with the correct id?

[Ezeiza]

No, Cris, it is a lovely form of Habranthus tubispathus.

[ThomasB]

One week ago I bought a single bulb of Sprekelia formosissima which was offered at a clearance sale for 10 cent.
It flowered yesterday (though with a shorter stem than usual for this species). 

[Alessandro.marinello]

this week in flower Z. traubii

[santo2010]

Compare the colour of Thomas's Sprekelia and mine.
I haven't seen anywhere other Sprekelia having so much white in their flowers.
It is the first time it has so much white, before I remember the central stripe, but no more.
I will look for pics.
It is normal? Could be an hibrid?

[bulborum]

Very nice one Santo

congratulations
I hope it is a mutation
gives a lot of perspectives for new ones
do you pollinate it

Roland

[santo2010]

Yes, I have. And with pollen of different Sprekelia flowers.
But I have never been succesfull pollinating Sprekelia.

[bulborum]

Pity Santo

It would be nice to have some seeds
maybe one day if you have an offset left over
I am lining up

I will give it a try to pollinate some Sprekelia next year

Roland

[PeterT]

Can anyone advise me how deep to plant lycoris radiata please?

[Maggi Young]

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