This season the only way to get certain amaryllis varieties was to buy them pre-potted for holiday sales. It seems increasingly common to find that some importers are the exclusive purveyors of certain new hybrids. It should come as no …
‘Lady Jane’ is a 1995 introduction that has seen intensive production among the double amaryllis clan until the last several years. This year it is widely available once again which caught Emaryllis by surprise. There are more and more and …
In a recent effort to see what might be substituted for ‘Limona’, which is presumably out of production, an unfamiliar but beautiful sight opened on my windowsill. It looked a lot like what ‘Limona’ was originally touted to be, a …
‘Jewel’ is a curious double amaryllis that doesn’t measure up in many ways to its more modern brethren. It’s been around for over twenty years, and it’s becoming harder to locate in the bulb trade. While so many other double …
There are always photos of amaryllis cultivars floating around that stir desire among collectors, if for no other reason their lack of easy commercial availability. I’m not only talking about the countless images of cut flower varieties that are perennially …
One of the most perplexing cultivar groups in all Hippeastum-dom belong to the several selections flying under the name ‘Picotee’. Throw in a couple of other offerings that work on similar ground (white with thin red piping) such as ‘President …
