I would be overwhelmed too, I'm sure. they sure are pretty...As is that picture there...

I think I saw a documentary about this, or something similar. Is the artist Chihuly? (I'm sure the spelling is wrong). Truly amazing as are all of your photographs. What a tremendous resource.

I'm not positive but the artist chihuly (something like that) does ring a bell...inside the Climatron is a display of same artist's glass flowers. Mobot has more glass works (assuming same artist) This is entrance/exit to the rose garden.
As seen through a conservatory window -

There are 3 aligned lily ponds in front of the Climatron; in one float these tapered glass sphereicals -
Lily pads were quite as impressive as the blooms.
Extended view.


The Climatron.

That is beautiful...

Amazingly beautiful! Thanks for the pics.

This looks like Chihuly's work to me. He had pieces at our Desert Botanical garden that were just amazing!!
http://www.chihuly.com/

I saw pictures of that exhibit Marie. It was awesome! http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com...

Lycoris squamigera
day and night

J that is absolutely beautiful.

sigggggggggggggh

Crinum - 2nd round of blooms this year...

Cool! You're the first northerner I've seen post growing Crinum. Do you grow it in a pot? I've got one that I received in a bulb swap a couple of years ago. It's in a pot with other plants that goes in the unheated plant room for winter and back to the deck in summer. It was small when I planted it, but is maturing nicely. I didn't know if there would be a chance of my seeing it bloom- I'd never heard of anyone growing them in containers.

jmorth, your Lycoris are gorgeous. Do you know the ID of your crinum?

Neal, I will be the second northerner poster growing crinums.

Crinum 'Ellen Bosanquet'

Do you grow it as a perennial sgardener? Plantfiles lists it as z6b but we know how conservative they can be.

mine is indeed container grown...goes into basement dry in pot overwinter

No, I don't. I grow them in containers. I wanted to experiment but never get around to doing it. Maybe I will try with the one that offsets like crazy. Plant it deep and see if it will survive the winter here.


My Amarcrinum howardii.


I am looking for Amarine bulbs. Does anybody knows a source?

How many varieties do you grow? I've never looked very closely at Crinums, thinking I couldn't grow them, but now my interest is piqued! I love experimenting with zone pushing too.

Nine varieties. So far, four has bloomed for me.

Hosta in the shade

I'm in. Crinums just went on my spring bulbous list