Hippeastrums

Wow! You have so many! They are all stunning. Mine gave me a lot of joy over Christmas. Now let me see…which do I like best? I think Gervase, especially with Krull!

these are wonderful flowers. I only have 4 and they are lovely and always bring me joy too.

Thanks for posting these photos of your Hippeastrums (Amaryllis) Wylie. They all look wonderful!

I have 2 bulbs in the kitchen that I started off a week or two ago but I have a lot more that I haven't started yet.

I also have 3 pots of Clivias. One is a small offset that probably isn't big enough to flower this year but should do so next year. The other 2 pots have several flowering size bulbs in them but as they take up too much space in the flat I've left them out on the balcony.

I did bring all my bulbs in when we had that week of temps below freezing as they wouldn't have survived otherwise.

They are beautiful, I didn't know there were so many different types.

I like them all but fave I think is the variety that has a cat in one photo. Is that Gervase? My Hip is shooting up nicely, a red one I believe bought for me for Christmas. The one from last year I haven’t started to water yet.

I found a site that had over 100 different Hippeastrums on offer (in the Netherlands). They also have a large collection of lilies (so look for a blog this summer on the ones I have reserved).

While all of these have flowered, there are additional spikes that are still coming up and flowering, so the season of flowers is about 3 months long. There are also another group I have drying out and waiting for spring. Then there are those I have grown from seed that are still growing to the flowering stage.

Absolutely stunning collection.

They are all so beautiful! So many!

You are doing really good, Wylie! I love to see the pictures you upload of your flowers!

All are very beautiful.

Thanks! I have seed pods developing, so in a few years some new combinations.

I did the same a couple of times & got one flower I liked a great deal. It was a cherry red with white stripes!

I saw you have uploaded some pictures to Flickr today! They are magnificent flowers! :)

You have a Flickr account? What's the link?

I've had an account on Flickr for many years now - in fact I have 3! Plus 1 group I made up a few years ago. I was admin & mod for quite a few years on Flickr!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/david_2011/ This is the oldest of the 2 I'm actually using though I can't upload any more photos to it as I passed the 1,000 limit some years ago. I can still use the account but mostly for admin purposes.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/195967127@N04/ This is the 2nd account & the newest & which I only use for uploading photos as I keep it below the 1,000 photos limit.

The original one I haven't accessed for years so I don't know if it works any longer.

A couple of weeks ago I tried to make a 4th account but Yahoo won't let me open another account unless I can give them a different mobile number. I don't have any more mobiles I can add!