August and September see tens of thousands of belladonna flowering along roads, in gardens, in fields in the Cape Town region, including Darling, my town. Does this happen elsewhere? I have yet to see paradisicola in flower. Vioolsdrif, their home, is a long drive. Alastair, Darling, Western Cape. On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 11:24 AM Garak <garak@code-garak.de> wrote: > Hi David and all, > > I've actually been wondering about the same thing - this year, I've > ordered 5 Amaryllis Belladonna Rose foncĂ© from Bulb'argence. I've > planted 2 of them at my south wall, still quite sure they won't survive > my winters here, and the other 3 together with some more Mediterraneans > into a mortar trough with similar substrate at the same depth. As it was > still hot back then, I didn't water any of them, but I guess the open > ground may have had some residue humidity the substrate had not. > Both open ground plants broke ground with a flower stalk within 2 weeks. > a few days after that breakthrough, it had started to rain, so the > trough got water, too - it took about 4 more weeks to show any movement > on those Amaryllis, and it was only leaves on all three. > > I'm quite sure i didn't pick the biggest bulbs for ground, as I > considered them death candidates anyway (still have to see that though), > so what made the difference? > > Martin > > Am 09.10.2019 um 19:20 schrieb David Pilling: > > Hi Diane, > > > > On 09/10/2019 18:16, Diane wrote: > >> Maybe the newer ones along the edge had more room to grow, so they > >> are the ones that bloomed. > >> The central group you left intact could have been starved. > > > > But I kept many from the edge for myself. The number of loose bulbs > > was so large that it is unlikely the ones I kept were any different to > > the ones I sent. > > > > Unless I have some sort of bulb dowsing talent that lets me select > > which bulbs are going to flower. > > > > > > -- > Martin > ---------------------------------------------- > Southern Germany > Likely zone 7a > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: A_Belladonna_rose_fonce.JPG > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 209639 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/… > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > -- Alastair Reay Tel: 022 492 3490 Cell: 083 380 2165 Address: 20 B Prospect Street DARLING 7345 SACAP Reg No ST 2070 _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…