Re: OT-PLANTS: moving amaryllis
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: OT-PLANTS: moving amaryllis
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 10:22:59 -0700 (MST)
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, J. Michael, Celia or Ben Storey wrote:
>
> >Do amaryllis transplant well?
>
>
> Hippeastrums only do well outdoors in Zone 8 and below (every
> year I ask Mom if I can put mine outdoors and she tells me not to). You
> need to ask somebody up there what the story is.
>
> celia
> storey@aristotle.net
> Little Rock, Arkansas USDA Zone 7b
>
> Hippeastrums are much tougher than you think. I mentioned earlier
that they survived a freeze of -5o. Everybody around here grows them
outside. I remember seeing amarylis in bloom in a convention garden in
Memphis in 1989, so that tells you how far north they can survive outside.
I wish I could find some orange and purple ones I saw at the La
Convention in Layfayette, LA.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
