[pbs] Hippeastrum 'Scarlet Baby'
P. C. Andrews
pcamusa at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 8 19:29:49 EDT 2008
Glasshouseworks has Scarlet Baby on their site.
-Phil
> From: jimmckenney at jimmckenney.com
> To: pbs at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 13:09:18 -0400
> Subject: Re: [pbs] Hippeastrum 'Scarlet Baby'
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> This is too funny.
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> I’ve been trying to find a source for this one, too.
>
> Years ago I was sent a bulb of this cultivar gratis. I grow only a few
> Hippeastrum now, mostly plants acquired as gifts. I’m not really a
> Hippeastrum person, and if I were to grow any more they would have to be
> fragrant.
>
> But ‘Scarlet Baby’ made a big impression. Despite the hilarious name (“You
> didn’t check the water temperature before you put the baby in the bath?” Or
> “You put habeñeros in the baby formula?”), it’s a very handsome small
> flowered cultivar.
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> At about the same time I got mine, a friend got one too. I remember her
> showing me the nice nest of fat bulbs she had been able to raise in only a
> season or two.
>
> I eventually lost mine, and have been looking for a replacement since.
>
> So if someone knows of a source, please let us all know.
>
>
> Jim McKenney
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