Re: An Amaryllis tale

Thanks for your answer, Kitty. Isn't that some treat, finding an Amaryllis 
with 8 flowers? 

Just musing here, I wonder what drives such "congenital" mistakes, if they 
are not genetic? 

On a similar note, last summer I had a single flower of one of my daylilies 
bloom into a full 7 1/2 inches across. Somewhere I have a picture of it, 
taken with a ruler in the photo, so this is not a "fish tale"! The remaining 
flowers on that same stalk were all deformed, but the other flower stalks on 
the same plant were all perfectly normal, each about 4 inches across.

Maddy Mason
Hudson Valley, NY  zone 5/6

In a message dated 3/6/03 12:03:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
gardenchat-owner@hort.net writes:

> On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:39:24 -0500 "Kitty Morrissy" <kmrsy@earthlink.net>
> writes:
> >Maddy,
> >I just read through about 50 messages of the last couple of days, 
> >and it
> >doesn't look like anyone responded to your question re number of 
> >blooms.  I
> >had an Amaryllis that had 8 blooms on one stalk the first year.  The 
> >next
> >year it had 2 stalks of 4, then last year it had one stalk of 4, but 
> >it
> >also had a daughter bulb, which I'm assuming drew some of the 
> >energy.  I
> >don't know that there's any guarantee of how it will perform from 
> >year to
> >year, but a good fertilizer program will help.
> >
> >Kitty

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index