Showing posts with label Ann's crosses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ann's crosses. Show all posts

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Amaryllis blooms

It's the amaryllis season now. All my mature plants have been blooming since February.
This week, I have these showing off their pretty faces in my living room.
Candy floss



Pink salmon



Exotica x Dancing queen



And some new hybrids whose parents are unknown to me. I grew them from seeds given by friends from Gardenweb.




I like amaryllis for their easy-to-grow and gorgeous blooms.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Amaryllis parade

Half of my seedlings from Ann has now showed off their beautiful face. So far, this season, I have 8 new crosses blooming for me. To my best guessing, they are crosses made from Charisma, Exotica, Bolero back in 2007. They have shown very interesting traces of their parentage.


From possibly Charisma as one of the parents, I have this bloom. Notice the picotee edge and tiny dots on the blooms.


This one, however, clearly shows traces of Exotica and Charisma. What present here are the visible veins, a characteristic of Exotica and the dots of Charisma.


In the same direction, from Exotica and an unknown parent, I have these.



And maybe from Boleto, I have this, with the trace of a pink on the petals.


Cindee hint that one of the parents for this bloom could be Pink Diamond.


A part from those visible traces of parentage, I have these two reds.



Out of these blooming amaryllis, I have also made a few crosses. It's so much fun to make all these cross-pollinations.