Resistant Amarillys
By Aleyna
13 comments
I’m in the testing phase. In October 2018 I posted the photo of Amarilis, while still living in Novo Hamburgo,
https://www.growsonyou.com/photo/slideshow/341197-fully-open-amarillis/member/Aleyna,
where the temperature are around 9 to 12ºC higher than here in São Francisco de Paula. It was planted in a pot.
Arriving in São Chico (as our city is affectionately nicknamed), I took it out of the pot and put it on the ground.
This year the weather was very cruel. Excessive and unusual heat until the end of May, with no rain, followed by a sudden drop in temperature, 4 frosts over a period of two months, snow in early September and hail, followed by a week and a half of storms and strong winds.
After all this the amarilys, which has been in the ground all this time, has blossomed.
I confess that it was not a very beautiful flowering, the flowers were punished by hail and strong winds.
So now I’m going to move it back to the pot again and leave the plant more sheltered until next year. Let’s see how it behaves.
22 Oct, 2020
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Thanks for your comment Julien. Do you have picture of your red salvia?
22 Oct, 2020
There seems to be 2 groups of Hippeastrums - those that do better in summer, and those for winter. I had some bloom in early summer while others went dormant. Now I'm waiting for that group to start growing.
22 Oct, 2020
Aleyna you have one tough hippy there! You must have the magic touch...
22 Oct, 2020
Congratulations, Aleyna! It's wonderful to see how it has come through & is flowering again!
It would be best to dig it up & put it in a pot till you can find somewhere that is better for it.
22 Oct, 2020
Thank you all for the comments.
Wyllie, I am waiting for the natives to see when they bloom. So far only foliage. The amarilis in the photo always seems to bloom in October. Spring here.
Yorklass, it's not a magic touch, I'm just taking a chance. I've already lost many plants :( for testing what happens.
Balcony, you are right there. that's why I'm planning to move it back to a pot :)
22 Oct, 2020
I will try and get a picture if it’s still in flower when I next go.
22 Oct, 2020
Thank you Julien
23 Oct, 2020
I'm envious you can grow these in the ground.
23 Oct, 2020
Bathgate
Hummmm, don't be, as you can see it was all damaged, poor lovely flowers
23 Oct, 2020
It’s pretty tough to endure the horrible weather, Aleyna. I can see why you want to pot it up again, it’ll come back more beautiful!
23 Oct, 2020
I've always found that my Amaryllis flowered in early spring if I did nothing that might affect their flowering period. So as October is spring where you live it would be their natural flowering time.
26 Oct, 2020
Thank you for the comment Kate, yep, I would like to see it happilly and strongly flowering again. Would even move it back to Novo Hamburgo if necessary.
You are right Balcony, this one always flower in October.
26 Oct, 2020
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lovely flower, Mother Nature has given it one heck of a baptism and it fights back with those lovey flowers, plants can be so tough, this bloke I know has a green house that was filled with cactus,succulents,aoneums, echiverias, it was his wife’s greenhouse and she was aloud in in the corner were two pots one a small fig and the other a small bush salvia, they have been in there for two years and were completely dead or so I thought , she no longer uses the greenhouse so I took them out in March and shoved them out the way, and to my amazement they are both in leaf with red flowers on the salvia.
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