It’s a Jungle Out There
Three down, one to go. Out of four ‘Kahlua’ bulbs received from Royal Colors this season, not one has turned out to be true to name. The first was a total surprise, and a new cultivar to the eyes …
Tag: amaryllis
Clear as Mud
‘Kahlua’ is one of the smaller cut-flower cybister/spider type amaryllises that Royal Colors gamely offered aficionados this season. With its quiet cream and chestnut coloration, it probably wouldn’t sell in droves alongside its bolder brethren during the dull days of …
You’re no Daphne, Darling
The quest to add the bold and richly shaded ‘Daphne’ to the site has not gone as had been hoped. Usually the newest cultivars to hit the market are usually available with correct labeling, but not this time out.
“No name red” shows its true colors
Ahh, the final box kit of the season. This purchased at a local full service nursery a week later than the ‘Minerva‘ ‘Mambo’ kit, just as the weather was getting quite chilly. Since they were outdoors, under a shed roof …
Another year, and no nearer to Vera
Registered back in 1987, ‘Vera’ had been so ubiquitous in the trade that I never worried about securing one to photograph from the leisure of my own home. Until I tried. Through the 90’s it seemed that it was typically …
Nothing to boast…
…and nothing as tasty as Kahlua to toast this time out. The first of several bulbs to bloom from a Royal Colors purchase of ‘Kahlua’, and judging by the scape colors and sizes, we may end up with three completely …
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 …
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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 …