Amaryllis belladonna in pots

mark akimoff makimoff76@gmail.com
Sun, 10 Aug 2014 16:54:35 PDT
This pot saw 9 deg f. For several nights in a row and temps around 20 f.
For about a week last winter. In an unheated, mostly open ended greenhouse,
in Oregon's Willamette valley. The picture was taken today, but it has been
blooming for about a week. Soil is 50/50 pumice and composted cow manure.
Hope this is helpful.
On Aug 8, 2014 12:31 AM, "Mark BROWN" <brown.mark@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> I grew the white amaryllis belladonna, which I was told is really a
> hybrid, in pots for years here. It grew and flowered beautifully.
> It was kept just frost free in a cold greenhouse for years. Outside all
> the rest of the time. I never kept it especially dry in summer or at any
> other time. I fed and repotted it as any other bulb.
> I lost it as soon as I planted it out...
> Mark
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> > Message du 08/08/14 02:51
> > De : "Brad King"
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> > A : "'Pacific Bulb Society'"
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> > Objet : Re: [pbs] Amaryllis belladonna in pots
> >
> > Hi Uli, Thanks for the info. It's very interesting to hear your
> > experiences. I'll keep a look out for N. Bowdenii. One interesting thing
> > about this hobby is finding a bulb (plant) that excites you and normally
> > does not grow in your part of the world and trying to manipulate an
> > environment to get it to grow and flourish. Sometimes we are rewarded
> with
> > great plants and blooms and other times.....well..... it's an experience.
> > Still waiting for the A. Belladonna to even emerge. Brad.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pbs [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
> > Johannes-Ulrich Urban
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 12:51 PM
> > To: Pacifib Bulb Society messages
> > Subject: [pbs] Amaryllis belladonna in pots
> >
> > Hello Brad,
> >
> > You live in an even colder climate than I do. Here we are zone 6-7 in
> > northern Germany and we have to be prepared for minus 20°C in winter for
> > many days in a row. Thak kind of frost penetrates deep into the soil
> > although that does not happen every winter. So any winter growing bulb
> has
> > be be grown under glass, protected from frost but with good light.
> > I do love Amaryllis belladonna, every time I see them in flower.... I
> want
> > them. I have tried so many times, in pots, in the garden with good
> > protection, in the open ground in the greenhouse.... nothing really
> worked.
> > I had a few blooms from the bulbs planted in the open soil inside the
> > greenhouse which is kept frost free. But even that was disappointing
> because
> > I had a big bunch of leaves at a time of the year where space is at a
> > premium under glass and very littel rewards flowerwise to justify the
> space
> > taken.
> > So... honestly..... I gave up on that bulb. I do not want to discourage
> > you... but there are so many plants that can be grown under one's given
> > condition, why bother with one that will not perform? With me A.
> > belladonna has never flowererd in a pot and it is said that the bulbs do
> not
> > like to be disturbed, they need one or two years to settle in after
> > transplanting and will not flower until they are established, in a
> suitable
> > climate that is.
> >
> > What I recommend as a suitable substitute are the hardiest forms of
> Nerine
> > bowdenii. (Not N. sarniensis!) N. bowdenii var wellsii is considered
> quite
> > hardy. I have donated seeds to the BX of a particularly hardy form that
> has
> > even survived outside one of the worst winters we had those last years.
> But
> > I give it overhead protection with a thick mulch and a cover against
> winter
> > wet at the base of a south facing wall. N. bowdenii is entirely summer
> > growing but autumn blooming when the leaves die down. The flowers are
> > different from A. belladomma of course, but they are THERE, many of them.
> > Looks great with silver Artemisia and blue Ceratostigma. Ontario should
> have
> > a thick snow cover that is an excellent insulation. I remember Ellen
> Hornig
> > talking about her former nursery in New York state, she could grow things
> > outside that I can only dream of, because of her immense and very
> reliable
> > snow cover.
> >
> > Hope that helps.....
> >
> >
> > Uli
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