[pbs] Amaryllis belladonna blooming
Susan Hayek
susanann at sbcglobal.net
Mon Aug 14 22:28:12 EDT 2006
>On this list we have often reported when the Amaryllis belladonna start to
>bloom in California. Perhaps it is a rite like the Lycoris blooming in
>other parts of the United States and the Crinum blooming for all of you who
>love Crinum. I've had a lot of bulbs bloom for me this summer and if I have
>time I'll write about some of them in another post, but the blooming of
>Amaryllis belladonna for those of us who haven't had rain since May and
>where the garden is a bit tired is a real thrill.
**Amaryllis belladonna have been blooming here for about two weeks. I
am about 5-6 hours north of Mary Sue, 15 minutes south-east of Diana
Chapman, an hour and a half south of the OR border.
>happening. We did have late rain, but my garden has been very dry this
>summer. But we had an unusually warm summer with less fog so perhaps it was
>the extra heat or extra sun. Unfortunately since I'm attending the IBSA
>symposium I may miss some of this amazing display. How about the rest of
>you who grow this plant?
**We've had no rain to speak of since April, and our summer hasn't
been particularly warm, nothing like the 90F temps we had three
summers ago.
I have hybrids not blooming yet in the back, but my main plants are
in the front and they're the ones blooming up a storm. I got them
from a fellow gardener a couple of years ago, and only some of them
bloomed last year. They've had no water since April.
>Mary Sue
>We're back to drippy fog the last few days after all that sunshine.
**And we're still at drippy fog with just a few hours of sunshine in
the late morning/early afternoon.
Our cistern is running dry and we've just purchased our 3rd load of water.
My plants are suffering.
s.
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susan hayek, North Coast of CA, USA, zone 9b, Sunset zone 17.
15 miles south of Eureka, CA, overlooking the Eel River, with a peek
of the ocean.
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