Fall is on its way

Beautiful, colourful lilies, Wylie. It certainly doesn’t look or sound like the start of autumnal weather for you!

Buster Ruster has an incredible flower.

Aren't they gorgeous,especially the white one.

Thanks. I like the autumn time, when a lot of the bulbs I have wake up and start growing or flowering. I am just not a summer person.

stunning flowers as always Wylie.
I love seeing your plant breeding successes. those daylilies are stunners.

Lovely to see the Amaryllis Belladonas flowering! They are such lovely flowers! The Day lilies are looking great in spite of not having been watered & having to face such high temps & UV levels!

The Amaryllis is used here as a roadside plant, so the whole island is covered in them. If you dig up a daylily, you'll see engorged parts on the roots. Those are water reservoirs for the plant.

Beautiful blooms.

You have such wonderful varities there love th e Amaryllis such gorgeous colour patterns on those Day lilys.

Thanks! I have a lot of the white Amaryllis bulbs putting up flower stems. Now if the Nerines will help out, I can make the cross of xAmarine.

That would be interesting to see .

I have several in the works from the last 2 years, and the bulbs are getting bigger. If they are like their Amaryllis side of the cross, it will take several years to get big enough to flower.

Thats great Wylie I would never of thought to cross Ameryllis with Nerines it will be interesting to see which way they go I bet you are looking forward to seeing how they develop O am.

It is possible to buy the Amaryllis x Nerine crosses on eBay. They are known as Amarines. A guide line to start with is that the round seeds Amaryllis produce may cross with other member of the same family that produce round seeds. Brunsvigia (Amarygia), Crinums (Amarcrinum). It is also why Hippeastrums are in the same family, but won't cross unless you you a flat seed plant like Sprekelia, which produces a Hippeastrelia. I do have some Nerine x Amaryllis bulbs growing that I am excited to see what happens as that isn't the usual direction of the cross.

Thank you Wylie I shall look that up also the Sprekelia .
I shall look forward to seeing your Nerine x Amaryllis of what they produce sounds exciting as you say they must be special to you for you being so excited to see them.