Hi AYM! Thanks for all info. Papillo and Exotic Star are both really unusual and pretty. Have you ordered Exotic then? Do post photos when they bloom! I did pay quite a bit because it was around £29 for 4 bulbs including the postage. But we already had Minerva so I may ask them for a refund as the whole point was getting different ones. J parkers seem really good about stuff like that.
What type of flowers are black and burgundy swan? Any luck with Dahlia tubers this year - have you got everything you wanted this year yet?
Hi wakeshine, long time no see, hope you are well. Your amaryllis are beautiful
Didn't look back properly yesterday. WOW! There are some lovely hellebores on the previous pages from aym and Joyce, simply stunning colours?. I'm almost tempted to start my own collection but don't really have a place for them.
Aym, first time growing the iris, just bunged them in, too close. The good news is they were only £1 a bag from home bargains (2 bags of 15 bulbs stuffed in that pot).
Are you ready for me to post the weigela cuttings and phlox seeds yet? Bet you've forgotten, haha.
Hey Joyce, thanks. Yes quiet a few perfumed beauties blooming right now!
Aym- yes Aym, I like freesia better,too. I did not find hyacinth fragrence overpowering at all. Maybe mine are not that fragrant. Btw lovely hellebores, iris and snowdrops. That amaryllis is gorgeous.
Kitty 2- wow, those iris look amazing. Mine absolutely refuse to bloom, for some reason.
Wakeshine- really beautiful amaryllis you have there. Eagerly awaiting waiting for mine to bloom.
still no sign of blooms on my unidentified alliums. They are comfortably growing and spreading but not blooming.
my almost dead dwarf papyrus rebounded with the first warm summer breeze.
buds forming on Dahlia too.
i had planted 3 chabaud carnations in this pot but my 7 year old cousin, while browsing through my refrigerator, found a chest of treasure (my box of seeds) and sprinkled violas, snapdragons, California poppy and sweet Williams in it. So now we have this pot.
Amazon lily smells nothing like hyacinth. It has a very different fragrance which I found sweet and refreshing.
Those blue flowers are annual delphiniums.
The last pot is over a decade old. My mom bought it when I was 7 or 8 years old. It was a pair. And there was also one tortoise shaped. Cuz Some accidents on our part we lost them. Jaipur pottery and ceramics are very popular in India cuz of their durability, quality and design.
The common red amaryllis we have here, we call them trash lily cuz they have small stem and small, fully red +green at throat flowers. They are too common. People make border out of them.
True. It's human nature to never be satisfied with what we have.
Btw, is it still that cold? We have discarded hoodies and sweaters and started switching on ceiling fans at night.
Yes I will, for sure. But it looks like regular old amaryllis, only the stem is less than a foot tall and the flower size is smaller.
Citus looks like a lovely flower. Is it invasive?
Terra cottas are bulky and fragile (you know what I mean) and comparitively expensive but they have a certain charm. Well baked ones don't peel before 5-7 years in use.
This is our time for flower explosion. Come summer and all we are left with are marriegolds and zinnias and cockscomb and canna.
Please do share pics. of your kalenchoe .I promise I won't laugh.
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Hi AYM! Thanks for all info. Papillo and Exotic Star are both really unusual and pretty. Have you ordered Exotic then? Do post photos when they bloom! I did pay quite a bit because it was around £29 for 4 bulbs including the postage. But we already had Minerva so I may ask them for a refund as the whole point was getting different ones. J parkers seem really good about stuff like that.
What type of flowers are black and burgundy swan? Any luck with Dahlia tubers this year - have you got everything you wanted this year yet?
Hi wakeshine, long time no see, hope you are well. Your amaryllis are beautiful
Didn't look back properly yesterday
. WOW! There are some lovely hellebores on the previous pages from aym and Joyce, simply stunning colours?. I'm almost tempted to start my own collection but don't really have a place for them.
Aym, first time growing the iris, just bunged them in, too close
. The good news is they were only £1 a bag from home bargains (2 bags of 15 bulbs stuffed in that pot).
Are you ready for me to post the weigela cuttings and phlox seeds yet? Bet you've forgotten, haha
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Stop shopping and have some freebies
Hey Joyce, thanks. Yes quiet a few perfumed beauties blooming right now!
Aym- yes Aym, I like freesia better,too. I did not find hyacinth fragrence overpowering at all. Maybe mine are not that fragrant. Btw lovely hellebores, iris and snowdrops. That amaryllis is gorgeous.
Kitty 2- wow, those iris look amazing. Mine absolutely refuse to bloom, for some reason.
Wakeshine- really beautiful amaryllis you have there. Eagerly awaiting waiting for mine to bloom.
Aym, I love the fragrance of both freesia and hyacinths but nothing beats Amazon lily.
They have the best fragrance of them all.
They started 45 days ago and are still flowering. I absolutely love them.
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Delphiniums and calendula sproted from last year's seeds. I did not plant them this year.
One of my cheaper amaryllis decided to come up early.
it's the common red one. Trash ones used to fill space.
Although mum season was over a month ago, yet they still send up a few blooms
*Sorry for so many posts, for some reason I am unable to post more than 4 pics per post.
Because of the warm weather, hyacinth flowers dont last very long
but another stem of flowers coming out of this one, if I am not wrong.
I planted some of its cuttings 2 months back. Already they are showing flowerbuds
Thanks Aym
Amazon lily smells nothing like hyacinth. It has a very different fragrance which I found sweet and refreshing.
Those blue flowers are annual delphiniums.
The last pot is over a decade old. My mom bought it when I was 7 or 8 years old. It was a pair. And there was also one tortoise shaped. Cuz Some accidents on our part we lost them. Jaipur pottery and ceramics are very popular in India cuz of their durability, quality and design.
The common red amaryllis we have here, we call them trash lily cuz they have small stem and small, fully red +green at throat flowers. They are too common. People make border out of them.
True. It's human nature to never be satisfied with what we have.
Btw, is it still that cold? We have discarded hoodies and sweaters and started switching on ceiling fans at night.
Aym, 12 C sounds so Lovely!!
Yes I will, for sure. But it looks like regular old amaryllis, only the stem is less than a foot tall and the flower size is smaller.
Citus looks like a lovely flower. Is it invasive?
Terra cottas are bulky and fragile (you know what I mean) and comparitively expensive but they have a certain charm. Well baked ones don't peel before 5-7 years in use.
This is our time for flower explosion. Come summer and all we are left with are marriegolds and zinnias and cockscomb and canna.
Please do share pics. of your kalenchoe .I promise I won't laugh.