'Liberty' is gorgeous!! I usually click on the photos otherwise you miss a lot of the image..

Sharon gave me the perfect name for the seedling, 'Mintha', I think it suites her perfectly. Much better sounding then 'seedling' when I am talking to her...

Mintha is perfect
and here is something purple

Beautiful crocus, that would be an awesome color for an Amaryllis.

Start breeding Margaret, maybe you could get close I'd love one that color

Dirt, I am way too old to start that, now you on the other hand are way younger so I think you should get busy on it, and who knows, maybe I will live to be over a hundred and get to buy a real purple beauty from you.

So sorry--never going to happen!
but here is new experimental picture


what do you think?

Heh, so I guess we have to wait for someone else to grow a purple Amaryllis.

Nice, except maybe a little too much contrast and color saturation.

Yeah, it's a bit much like a cartoon of itself...
anyway,
'Apple Blossom' says hi


and here are the three of them this morning at 0darkthirty

@dirtdorphins , that's a very nice shot of Apple blossom, the together is nice too.

Yesterday I took Papilio out of her cool resting place, tidied and watered her, I hope she blooms.

Thanks Margaret,
I bet she will... and be happy to get on with it

Wow.I'm away for a day and look at all the beautiful blooms posted.Liberty is a knockout and Apple Blossom will always have a place in my collection.I need to go look in the pile and see if I still have Liberty.

mcash70 said:

JT, is anyone working on getting a "north/south American registry." set up at this time?????

No one that I know of.I have plenty of free space on my website but do not have the time.I also do not know how much interest there would be among other hybridizers.It just seems a shame to me to let many great hybrids die out from lack of a simple naming system.

New stamp is also showing up.

I seemed to have misplaced/forgotten this double white cultivar's name; any help identifying is appreciated.

It reminds me a little bit of Jewel. But I can't really be sure since I can't see directly into it. Jewel has a red line around the center of the throat. Look at my profile photo. Jewel is the bloom at the bottom center.

Glad to be back on this forum. I had major surgery and ended up bedbound for six weeks. Now up and about to enjoy the first hint of spring in my outside Amaryllis beds. A few early H. striatum scapes appearing. That species Amaryllis is usually the first one to bloom for me.

It's good to have you back.I,for one,have missed your nice pictures.I'm glad the surgery went well.

Babara, glad your back and that your surgery was successful. Being bedbound for 6 weeks doesn't sound like much fun.

Thanks for your kind wishes.

No red line in there. The bloom is slightly over 8 inches dia.
Glad too for your return and good health Barbara.