Hippeastrum, Amaryllis 'Charisma'

I planted one bulb of A. Charisma and one of A. Exposure several years ago. They have flourished and multiplied to become a patch of each...Read More side by side and one of the most dramatically gorgeous sights in my spring garden.

It does look as if cherry kool aid was splashed on the flower. Charisma and Showmaster look like step sisters, so similar in form and pattern.

this is one of the standard Large Amaryllis that's almost a two tone. It has upper petals of a pale Raspberry and lower petals of White a...Read Morend mid veins of a darker raspberry.

The Amaryllis are in full bloom here. I have them all over the flower beds. I plant the bulb half way in the grown and put a lot of com...Read Morepost around them and use liquid fertilzer when groth starts. They will also need to be staked but becarefull because they send up small new bulbs right next to the mother. I have cross pollinated three bulbes and have about three hundred small bulbes. They should bloom next year. This is a lot of fun if you want to try I got it out of "Breeding Ornamental Plants" Edited by Dorothy J. Callaway & M. Brett Callaway, Timber Press. It is easy to understand. I will let you know what happens. And I understand most will not be good. You pick the best through out rest. Joan