Just as the amaryllis season was going full steam, and bulb purchasing seemed to be in the rear view mirror, something made Emaryllis take a second look at these kits. Passed over since at least early October at our usual …
‘Star of Holland’ was officially registered by De Oudendam as ‘Ster van Holland’ in 1984. Emaryllis was a budding Horticulture major in college at that time, and missed the boat in terms of seeing it in person. While not officially …
‘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 …
‘Minerva’ has long been the go-to amaryllis if a bold red and white contrast is needed to get into the holiday spirit. While the red may lean orange, the patterning and ruffled texture is a joy to behold. But in …
In the lead up to the winter holidays, much was swirling about in Emaryllisland, and the chances of finding time to devote to this website, much less a box kit feature (a fixture since 2008) seemed rather dim. No matter …
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 …
Emaryllis hasn’t always reported each attempt to get a desired cultivar into the gallery in great depth, but we have at least noted mislabeling frustrations in the effort to document ‘Cutting Edge’, an Israeli variety with few available photos online. …
Our ‘Waxed and Waned’ post explored the tsunami of wax entombed amaryllis bulbs that only continues to gain steam worldwide. More colors, more glitters, more accessories, more holidays to conquer. Emaryllis isn’t here to promote that sort of deliberate one-and-done …
Back in early autumn of 2019, Emaryllis was searching for sources for a couple of new amaryllis cultivars, and stumbled across a surpise offering by one particular mail-order house. In addition to getting a fair price on some huge ‘Wild …
Ten seasons ago, when Emaryllis did the first Box Kit feature on this site, it was done with a sense of whimsy combined with a “Consumer Reports” mentality. It led to both amazement (some of the performances were great) and …
