Maybe next year
Emaryllis shells out a fair amount each season to attempt to get as many newly available varieties into the photo gallery as possible. But sometimes things don’t go perfectly. Case in point: ‘Tutti Frutti’. While the one and …
Category: News
It can’t all be bad
Reading Emaryllis.com posts can be a bummer sometimes. Often new varieties are added each season with suitable fanfare, but much of the time the news is of the latest mislabeling fiasco. Not today folks! We now take a break from …
I Never Promised You an Amaryllis Garden
But here it-or rather, they are! Royal Colors offered three of the klister (Dutch for cluster) type amaryllis this season, so naturally Emaryllis had to have one of each. Marketing these clumps (which Royal Colors distinguished with the “multiflora” moniker) …
The Art of the Sale
Tsk, tsk. The same Florida company that sold ‘Nagano’ in place of ‘Solomon’ this season has done it again. Above we see the jaunty orange and white of the long familiar, unregistered variety that goes by the name ‘Lillystar’ in …
Triple treat: three new Saad-Assaf entries
The Israeli breeder and grower has been on quite a roll of late. While they do grow common cultivars that end up in many box kits, they have been adding new selections from their own breeding program at a steady …
Wither Minerva?
A few years ago, when running a box kit feature, I ran into a ‘Minerva’ impostor situation that was nearly undetectable. Bulbs that are not in peak condition, well-rooted, and grown in ideal warmth and light can exhibit wildly variable …
La Belle Rebellion
A new addition to the Photo Library brings with it not only a pretty new face to make you smile, but a naming convention to surely revile. Meet ‘Belle Alliance’, which many of us will know by the name Intermezzo ® . …
The lesser babka
Sorry to start the new year on an off note. Such are the demands of a chronicler’s website. As the minor tragedies unfold, it is imperative that the information be shared, right? One of the vagaries of amaryllis supply is the …
A tropical breeze brings ‘Sulawesi’ to our shores
A cut-flower variety that isn’t in the dry bulb trade per se…yet. This elegant and richly colored “cybister” type would certainly have buyers just as its island neighbor, ‘Sumatra’ has. ‘Sulawesi’ is fascinating to observe in the early stages of …
A tropical breeze brings ‘Sulawesi’ to our shores Read more »
Tiny but tasty, ‘Piripiri’ flavors the gallery
Charming and deliberately uneven in form, this delicate newcomer enters the Photo Library as a one-off. Hybrids like ‘Piripiri’ are almost entirely the province of the cut-flower industry. There are dozens of such amaryllis barely known to the dry bulb …