(Cutting down on dial-up drag.)
Continuing from Part Five:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/818911/
Part SixLet's See What Yo Having Blooming Now.
I'll start. Ambiance from RC
I fell in love with Ice Queen from RC. Nice pure white and excellent form. It was very slow to break dormancy, then took off like crazy. There are 3 scapes.
I love the red picotee "edge" on Ambiance and I really like your Ice Queen. She almost looks like that Oriental lily called 'Casa Blanca', which I'm particularly fond of!
I love when they look like garden lilies. Those two are great ones.
Naughty Lady
How naughty are they?
They'll never tell!
Then they are definitely ladies!
Mmmmm....cherish the Naughty Ladies.
Charisma today.
Fairy Tale. Love those green centers!
Here's my oldest hipp. which I assume is Red Lion. Does Red Lion have a red base on the stalk like this?
Cherish The Ladies--good band and hippeastrums
H striatum blooming here today unaffected by fence construction.
Gilmar
Double Dragon on it's second season...
Another shot of my new favorite double, Ice Queen
'Ice Queen' is a winner, on the wish list as is Ambiance.
Here is 'Dancing Queen' and she has finally grown to her royal height. She had been blooming on short stalks that made her out of proportion the last couple of times. Patti
Nice one, Patti!
My Lovely Garden in full bloom.
Nagano in full bloom. I like the nice pure orange color.
Just beautiful and clean.
bsharf, I am a sucker for orange and Nagano is the best I think I have ever seen. Stunning. Patti
here is samba, stunted
from RC, sold as "Ambiance". Doesn't look like it to me, what do you think?
That's a tough call. Your Ambiance and My Ambiance, both from RC, are very similar, but not identical. Both have the red picotee edge, variation between flowers on the percentage of red, and the backs are quite close. My are a mid sized bloom, around 5-5.5 inches, and the tepals do curl back as the flower ages. A couple of possibilities: Did RC get this cultivar from 2 different sources, hense a slight difference. I did have 3 mislabelled bulbs from them, so it could be a substitution. The only other one that is close is Cclown and that is very frilly. There could also be a slight difference in flower size, if you grew yours outside, mine was indoors. Sorry about the typing errors, my computor is on strike, it refuses to delete tonight. I forgot to mention, that my Samba was also stunted, so RC definately had a bad batch of Samba.
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thanks bsharf. I see similarities but mine has so much of a green tint to it. I will email them and say it is not what I ordered. I wanted one that looked like yours. It was planted in a bed with "red" flowers. I wouldn't have picked something w/ so much green in it.
anyhow, that is 2 of 5 that are wrong. I am not impressed by that at all! Might as well stay aggravated with domestic vendors, no need to expand internationally in this respect.
What makes a hippeastrum stunted? I have had a few, and some seem to get it right the next year and some go from being tall to stunted? They all live in the same conditions. GH from the fall to late spring, then out to a east side on covered deck with most of the plants from the GH until Oct when they go back to the GH and rest up for the late winter show. Patti
This is what I have blooming now, and it has been glorious. I did not know the name of it, but after reading this thread it seems like it is Nagano? I found this unlabeled bulb at a mark down bin last year somewhere - sometimes it's a homerun. ;)
Toronto
Mont Blanc
I never knew Mont Blanc is huge and pretty till now...
A very big dissapointment for me.
Bingo from Amaryllis Bulb Company, planted way back in November, put up a scape then dried out without opening it's flowers. Now put up a stunted second scape and produced 1 flower. :-(
There's always next year!! I had Santa Fe from RC do the same dry scape thing this year. Only it didn't send up any more for me to see it. I just hope it IS Santa Fe after the bulb mix ups reported. So count yourself lucky Maria!
So true Boojum. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes not. Hopefully next season it will perform better.
Talking about performance, take a look at this...
Jungle Star (s)
Rosysunset: I don't think that you have Nagano. My Nagano's back is lime green and a pale orange with no white at all. Also the veining on your bloom is much more pronounced. Might it be Hermitage, which is more orangish red? Unfortunately, color is really hard to judge on an uploaded photo, esp with differences in the camera's reading of the red-oranges, and the type of lighting.
That Jungle Star is wonderful.
I love your Jungle Star too Maria, and yes, talk about performance - wow!
Ditto.