Amarylis belladonna in the Pacific Northwest

Amarylis belladonna in the Pacific Northwest
Jan Jeddeloh via pbs (Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:04:46 PDT)

It’s good to hear people are having success with Amarylis belladonna in areas with freezing weather. I’m hoping everyone offering me hope is growing Amarylis belladonna and not Lycoris squamigera. Looking at the pictures they sure look a lot alike. I have on occasion seen some kind of ’Naked Lady’ growing around Portland but I don’t know what they really are. Could be either plant I suppose.

Current plan is to plant the bulbs deep in my new sandy, well actually pure sand, rock garden and hope for the best. I figure I can pop a pot over the foliage is serious frost is expected. Rock garden has to be finished first.

Jan

On Sep 5, 2021, at 6:58 PM, Jack & Val Myrick via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

Hi Jan,

They grow here in Sonora, CA, Zone 8, with frost, night after night. We usually only go down to the high 20s with it getting as low as 15 every few winters.
The leaves don’t seem to mind. I like to plant the bulbs a few inches below the soil as they readily multiply and end up on the surface after a few years.
Are they uncommon in Portland?

Val
Sonora, CA

On Sep 5, 2021, at 1:04 PM, Robert Parks via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

Problem is they grow during the winter and the leaves aren't particularly
hardy.

Smaller and recently transplanted bulbs rarely flower...the best blooming
is from long established clumps (and even there, maybe a third or the bulbs
send up scapes), or after fire or simulated fire (a nearby traffic island
got a brutal brush clearing, and is now in heavy Amaryllis bloom!)

I'd try them in a large tub where the roots will never be disturbed and try
to get the best growth.

Robert
in SF where it is generally a very poor bloom season for Amaryllis given
last winter's drought...a few of the bulbs I've distributed in the devil
strips are poking up leaves already.

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On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 12:21 PM Jan Jeddeloh via pbs <
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

So i scored a couple of Amarylis belladonna bulbs in the latests BX. Do I
have a snowball’s chance of hell growing them in the ground in Portland,
Oregon? I read the wiki information on them and some say to plant at neck
level and some say to plant deeper. My inclination is to plant deeper
since that would provide a bit of frost protection. I do have a frost free
greenhouse but what I read says they don’t bloom as well in pots. I can
give them good drainage in the garden.

Jan Jeddeloh, Portland, Oregon zone 8

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