Hippeastrum 'Happy Nymph'

I've never seen a double one before.

Beautiful amaryllis. When and how do you feed it Wylie?

Beautiful!

That one's definitely got the Wow factor Wylie!!

It is 30 cm across! I feed my Hippies a liquid fertilizer every couple of weeks. But to get them to rebloom, they need a long period of cool (10° - 15°C) temperatures and then a dry period.

Wonderful blooms, Wylie! I've never had anything like it in the all the years I've grown Amaryllis!

They do like a cold, dry period in the winter (or before trying to force them to flower outside their usual,natural flowering period) as I've explained in my blogs on Amaryllis.

Just today I brought 2 of my bulbs into the house & given them a little water. They will flower again in a few months time. I have a few more pots of them on the balcony still & I may have to bring them inside the flat as we are forecast very low temps for the coming week. Amaryllis won't survive in frosty conditions.

I also brought in a small Clivia as, like Amaryllis, they will not survive frosts. I have 2 big pots of Clivias & I will have to bring them in s well! The way things are going we will almost have to move out to accommodate all the plants on the balcony that won't survive frost!

I am waiting for 3 more to bloom and then I'll do a blog on all the Amaryllis I had bloom this season.

I talk to someone in Arkansas that grows Amaryllis from seed, and he says that the doubles don't always produce pollen. I am lucky to have had one flower on 'Elvas' that did have 1 pollen to use, so I crossed it to 'Exotic Star' and it now has seeds developing.

I am more worried about getting temperatures low enough to produce flowers. It is supposed to be under 15°C for 6-8 weeks, but we have been getting lows of only 16-17°C. I have a whole bunch of pots inside to keep them dry, but the temperatures are the hardest to control.

Look at this site: https://bulbi.co.uk/ They say they can deliver to the UK "without hassle" by using DPD.