[pbs] Amaryllis belladonna
Adam Fikso
irisman at ameritech.net
Wed Sep 6 12:37:49 EDT 2006
For Hans and others finding this bulb tricky. When I was a kid in Berkeley,
Calilfornia, this was (and still is) a common plant, thriving on neglect in
clay soil, increasing and blooming every year. Temperature maxima and
minima there in the Bay Area over the last 60 years are about 26° F and 99°
with freezing temperatures rarely continuing for more than one night, and
maxima for not more than 2-3 days at a time. The soil can bake hard as a
rock and crack wide open in the summer. Bulbs are often partly out of the
ground--as much as a third of the length of the bulb.
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