I have some interesting bulb hybrids that have flowered recently and thought PBS folks might be interested in the pics. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… In 1995 Wayne Roderick let me make reciprocal crosses with his Brunsvigia josephinae and 3 color forms of Amaryllis belladonna, white, bicolor, and magenta. (Jim Lykos let me know the same bigeneric cross was made with a superior form of B. josephinae in Australia back in the 1800's.) It took 12 years for the first to flower and now, after 14 years only 9 individuals have flowered (probably because I haven't had enough room to put many in the ground where they belong). The 3 progeny with A. belladonna as seed parent that have flowered look just like their A. belladonna parent, but the 6 that have flowered with B. josephinae as seed parent are intermediate. I call them "Brunaryllis." None of these has been able to set seed with A. belldonna or with sibling pollen so far, but my hope is that eventually one of the progeny will be fertile so an F2 can be produced. The tallest inflorescence this year has a 41 in. stalk height and, with flowers included, stands 52 inches. Flower number has gone up slightly for repeat flowers, starting at about 20 flowers per stalk and now approaching 30. No offsets have yet been produced. The pics are by a friend named Ken Gray Martin Grantham