Glasshouseworks has Scarlet Baby on their site. -Phil > From: jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 13:09:18 -0400 > Subject: Re: [pbs] Hippeastrum 'Scarlet Baby' > > This is too funny. > > I’ve been trying to find a source for this one, too. > > Years ago I was sent a bulb of this cultivar gratis. I grow only a few > Hippeastrum now, mostly plants acquired as gifts. I’m not really a > Hippeastrum person, and if I were to grow any more they would have to be > fragrant. > > But ‘Scarlet Baby’ made a big impression. Despite the hilarious name (“You > didn’t check the water temperature before you put the baby in the bath?” Or > “You put habeñeros in the baby formula?”), it’s a very handsome small > flowered cultivar. > > At about the same time I got mine, a friend got one too. I remember her > showing me the nice nest of fat bulbs she had been able to raise in only a > season or two. > > I eventually lost mine, and have been looking for a replacement since. > > So if someone knows of a source, please let us all know. > > > Jim McKenney > jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com > Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, 39.03871º North, 77.09829º West, USDA zone > 7, where Iris dichotoma is blooming (or will be in about three hours). > My Virtual Maryland Garden http://www.jimmckenney.com/ > BLOG! http://mcwort.blogspot.com/ > > Webmaster Potomac Valley Chapter, NARGS > Editor PVC Bulletin http://www.pvcnargs.org/ > > Webmaster Potomac Lily Society http://www.potomaclilysociety.org/ > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ _________________________________________________________________ Get Windows Live and get whatever you need, wherever you are. Start here. http://windowslive.com/default.html/…