A couple of decades ago when we lived in Wilton, Connecticut zone 6B I grew Amaryllis belladonna outdoors in the ground year-round, planted beneath the wide overhang from the roof. Did fine, flowered well for a few years. Then we moved. About growing it in pots - I haven't tried Amaryllis belladonna in pots but do have xAmarcrinum. Spend winter in greenhouse. The several bulbs resulting from offsets of one original bulb are still crammed in one pot. One bulb flowered in mid-August, at the same time as my pink Crinum powellii. Easy to distinguish - the flowers have more substance than crinum, and are held horizontally rather than drooping. There are currently 3 more bulbs of xAmarcrinum flowering in the same pot as the earlier one. BTW - last year when I was dividing the crinum I did plant one in the ground at the bottom of the driveway, near where Sauromatum guttatum is enthusiastically thriving and multiplying. At the same time I planted a Musa basjoo in the same area. Both plants winter protected with dry oak leaves heaped in a container inverted over cut back banana and another over crinum. Banana came back, crinum did not. Judy in New Jersey, where today I dug a bucket of fine gravel out of the clogged upper culvert channel to use when repotting. Not even noticeable what was removed, compared to what's there. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: BelleWood in Bloom_2021-09_xAmarcrinum.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 142510 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
