The National meeting for The AHS (American Hemerocallis Society) was held in Hattiesburg Ms. two years ago. A a few of our local club members and I attended. Yes that is a daylily meeting, but on the way back home we stopped at a garden of a man that grew daylilies, and camellias his wife had grown Amaryllis before she passed away. He was an older man maybe 90, and we enjoyed the visit very much.
Later our local botanical garden announced that it wanted to start up a new area of the gardens and feature Amaryllis, they might have called them Hippestrum, I don't recall. Any how the older gentleman from Mississippi heard about it and let us know that he would love to donate some of the Amaryllis previously grown by his wife.
I was told the Hattiesburg daylily club often helped him with his daylilies and they have a great relationship with him. They called our club and let us know that they had dug those Amaryllis and one of our members met them and brought the bulbs back. I then picked up the bulbs, took them home and sorted them by size. Two club members came over to my garage and we potted up all those bulbs. We ended up with three rows of "larger" pots and three rows of the small trade one gallon pots. I did not actually plant all those pots in the ground like I do a lot of my potted daylilies, but just used leaves to bury the pots about three quarters of the way.
Now nearly all of the pots are showing signs of new leaves, some are even showing new stalks. The botanical garden wants all the plants to bloom first before they have us plant them in the new bed they will build (soon I hope) so they can plant them by color being none of the bulbs were labeled. So I hope to be showing bloom photos soon and will appreciate any help in trying to get some of them identified.
Hopefully I will be able to get more help from the man who donated the plants also.
I have grown Amaryllis (pass along) for years but now I feel growing these for the botanical gardens I need to step up my game a bit. So I am open for any suggestions, tips and especially disease info. I have noticed over the past few years my on have shown signs of red blotch, but I never bothered to treat them. I am already seeing some sign of red here and there on the newly received plants, but I know that in itself is not a sign of red blotch but I am watching for it. Has anyone tried treating Amaryllis with Daconil or Azoxystrobin, two chemicals I used on daylilies for rust and leafstreak?
Three rows of larger pots:
Three rows of small pots:
Other photos of the pots.
