I have a few Hadeco blooms from Eden Blooms that have already flowered. They came at the end of September.
The first is Barotse. The color is very pretty, in some light it looks like a dark raspberry, it other light it looks more red. The flower is long lasting.
Vegas from Hadeco. A huge double. The color starts out red, and as the flower ages turns into a very pretty dark pink.
Bellisimo from Hadeco A salmon and white bloom.
Vesuvious from Hadeco This one has so much pollen.
Pavlova from Hadeco. A very pretty small white double. I really liked this one.
Little Devil from Hadeco. Orange red small flower.
Graffiti from Hadeco. This was another small flowered one that I really liked.
May I ask why you cut your blooms and place them in bud vases? Is it for personal enjoyment or is there a benefit to the bulbs by doing so?
Vesuvious is a stunner.
There's no benefit to cutting them. I keep my first year bulbs in a south facing unheated glass porch for the winter. I have a terrible problem with fungus knats in that room. I keep that room closed off from the rest of the house to contain the knats, which otherwise would become a real pest in the living areas of the house. I enjoy the flowers on my kitchen windowsill as cut flowers. They last as long, or perhaps even a day or two longer, as they would uncut. Of course I am not trying to produce seed. Once the bulbs have their first year's bloom, I plant them outside in dedicated Amaryllis beds, and after a year or two of recovery, they bloom in March-April. We have occasional frost where I live, but mulch on the beds during the winter keeps the bulbs from freezing solid.
Thank you for the explanation. Makes perfect sense and am so envious you're able to leave yours in the ground. Mine spend Summer vacation on our screened in back porch and then bring the pots in around mid-October or so, depending on the night time temps. Not one has bloomed yet in Summer.
Alfresco began blooming today, a new one received a few weeks ago.
nice photo: I like the way you posed the bloom. The bloom on my Alfresco flower reminds me of the blooms on my gardenia.
This one just makes me smile.
Rozetta
I like Rozetta. Yours is very pretty.
This is the first one of my Dutch bulbs to come into bloom. Full House from American Meadows. The bloom is about 5 inches or 13 cms across, so its midsize between a miniature and a standard. Its more of a blood red than the photo shows. One of this cultivar's characteristics is having at least 6 flowers / scape. I like the crisp appearance of the white star. This cultivar is also sold as Tres Chic
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Top Choice, a Hadeco cultivar: Smaller flowered, lots of buds, orangish red, lots of pollen that unfortunately stains the flower.
Baby Doll, a Hadeco cultivar. Smaller flowered, white with green throat, lots of buds on scape.
Intokazi, the old reliable white from Hadeco, that is very commonly seen in boxed bulbs sold for Xmas. When some of the buds open, a few faint pink "veins" can be seen which disappear in a day or two. On the first scape of this bulb, 2 of the 4 buds had this pink. According to Emaryllis.com, the pink defect is a problem found in some of the current Intokazi stock.
Happy Birthday wishes to you! And many more. Enjoy your day.
Here's Royal Velvet looking very Christmassy with four large blooms. This is the third stalk in as many weeks. The bulb was huge I thought, about the size of a grapefruit.
Thank you, I am officially a senior citizen today. Your Royal Velvet sounds like it was a "mother bulb". 3 flower scapes is pretty unusual.
Half and Half from Easy To Grow Bulbs. Very similar to the older Grandeur.
Inferno from Eden Blooms. A Hadeco red double.
Louise, a pale lime green standard from Royal Colors. The first bloom happened to be a fused flower.
Sophisticate from Easy to Grow Bulbs. A pretty one, more of a trumpet form.
well my big papillo bulb is just sending a flower spike up now..
yea.. i'll tak pic when opens..
i have 3 side bulbets..after the bloom..i plan to unpot..put the
mama bulb in a bigger pot..and pot up babies..
Bestseller from American Meadows. Pale pink standard. It has an unusual texture, almost wrinkled.
Exotic Nymph from Royal Colors. Very dramatic. Reminds me alot of Sweet Nymph that was on the market last season.
Grand Prix from White Flower Farms. A nice showy red standard
Marilyn from Royal Colors. WOW! Huge, beautiful white to pale green, depending on the light. Looks like a giant peony.
an unnamed "mini queen" from Royal Colors. This is so cute and a true miniature.
Emanuelle from Royal Colors. Pretty pale salmon colored standard, 3 scapes will be in bloom at once.
Superstar from Royal Colors. Big showy red and white blooms
Moscow from Royal Colors. Big white standard with a ruffled edge.
"Susan"! Blooming now.
Very nice, but check your ID on DG plant files. The cultivar Susan is pink. Could you have received this as a mislabelled bulb? I've already had 3 mislabelled bulbs this year.
The box said Susan. Maybe the flash makes it look different?
Caprice from Royal Colors. Looks like a fancier version of Apple Blossom.
An unnamed "mini blossom" from Royal Colors. I really like these tiny ones.
Pajama Party from White Flower Farms. This has such an unusual varigation in color. Each bloom is different.
Spartacus from Royal Colors. Big and Showy.
Belladonna from Eden Blooms. A pretty coral mini with a white star.
Red Rival from White Flower Farms. A medium sized orange-red standard
