By dave | We've been celebrating Amaryllises this week at All Things Plants.com and in today's episode we'll discuss these cheerful winter blooming bulbs. After that, we'll talk about timely gardening information, including how to grow late winter crops like onions and potatoes. |
valleylynn said:Christie they are all so beautiful. That must take a long time from seed to bloom?A minimum of 3 years. So I am just at the beginning of my second generation of my hybrid, and that is with just one plant. The others from my first generation have not bloomed yet - maybe this year though
I want to see what we get and then perhaps cross the best of those. Long term project. I have some of my "babies" farmed out/fostered with friends. We are all waiting anxiously to see what we get. THe one that actually bloomed was with a friend, and she was nice enough to hand it back over to me - after we crossed it with itself and both took seeds. Sometime this next year I will give her back at least one offset from her parent "Fire 'n Ice as we named it. A HUGE exercise in patience, that will probably outlive me!
