This poor homeless plant has found a home. Good night and good luck.
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homeless Canna
Dale , Sending you a Damil.
Patti
Dale ,
What is the wide strap like leaf with a white stripe down the middle in the photo above?
Patti
Rose, it is Hippeastrum, I think it is called 'Mrs Garfield', but I have seen at least one other name given to it. It has a light pink flower w/ darker pink netting. I lost the photo I had of it. If blooms early, Feb and seems to be sterile, even with crossing w/other Hipps. It goes semi-dormant in summer if it is in the ground. In a container it is evergreen. Makes lots of offsets. Not really showy in flower, but I like the leaves. Leaves are much smaller than the Dutch hybrids. I had to quite sending photos tonight, something is wrong with the site and it keeps dropping me.
I think I may have this one,but hasn't bloomed for me. Do you think it will ever bloom I have it in a pot?
Thanks, Patti
If it is a big pot. It is a shy bloomer, every other year in my pot and I am a big user of Osmocote. It makes big clumps if kept well fed. The one in my picture is only a few months old (8-9?). I put some offsets in the ground last summer and they are doing well, they bloomed this year. I just keep it as an oddity.
That hippeastrum is being offered here as H Silhouette, but is in fact a species and is shy to flower.
If you read this forum it will give some answers
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/amaryllishippeastrum/msg0117034931005.html?3
Some pics
http://aolsearch.aol.co.uk/image?query=%27hippeastrum+silhouette%27
I had considered buying one myself, but the cost for now put me off!
Wallaby,
I have many small offsets, you can have some, trade?
I have found a reference to this bulb at Kew/RHS. They called it a hybrid, but, the pictures on your hyperlink are small and the flowers seem a little different from mine. Climate difference? Their is too much information on the web for me to keep track of all my plants.
I have lost my photo of the flower. It is on one of my 40 photo disks. Someday it will show up again. Until then.....
Yes dale! I tried sending a dmail but web site wet gaga, try again!
That is a very pretty garden. Your bulb must be a hybrid of it, species generally set seed while hybrids make offsets. Those catalogue pictures are always over-coloured anyway.