Hippeastrum 'Red Pearl'

Deep dark red. This is my third deep dark red hippeastrum.







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Hippeastrum Cybister 'Quito'

One of the prettiest cybister available. I really like the thin dark pink veins running along each creamish petal.

Before it was fully opened

Hippeastrum Cybister 'Shacoba'

Named the grower, Ludwig Amaryllis, as '96-28' and still is not available commercially. It is named as 'Shacoba' at some websites. The petals are veiny, dotty, curly, wavy, foldy ...

The scape is dark brown, the darkest I have ever seen on a hippeastrum


It will push out its productive parts before opening


Fully opened, side view






The front view


Top view


Chocolate coloured ovary

Hippeastrum Cybister 'Santa Cruz'

Classified by its grower, Ludwig, as a cybister. But for me it it does not look like a cybister at all :-)

Small in size less than 3 inches, short scape, full of veins and the petals get frilly as it ages ...

Hippeastrum Cybister Machala

Dark pink stripes. pale green throat, creamish petal .. similar colour scheme with the beaituful Cybister La Paz, with smaller flower, and wider petals. It also has a dark pink picotee ... simply dainty and pretty







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Hippeastrum Orange Rascal

My cutest hippeastrum yet, blooms measuring about 2 inches on a tiny scape, just slightly bigger than my rain lilies







Next to a ruler


Next to Roseum


Next to my rain lily, Zephyranthes Citrina

My first post

While waiting of the clock to strike at midnight, here goes my rants for the night.

We need to start something somewhere. This blog is about gardening in general and specifically about amaryllis. It seems that I can not find good info in planting amaryllis in Malaysia.

Here is a photo of my favourite amaryllis, hippeastrum 'Tosca', nice bright purple red colour, thin petals, red stamens, big flowers, tall scape ...

Hippeastrum Amalfi

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Amalfi is a town in Italy, surrounded by dramatic cliff and coastal scenary .... but I am writing about Amalfi, the hippeastrum. I puchased 3 bulbs at GBP9.60 at e-Bay. The seller is located in England, UK and the bulbs originated from South Africa. Of the three bulbs that I received, 2 are giving out beautiful pinkish with green throat blooms and look amazing with green background

Enjoy the photo series ...

The bulb and the bud ...


The flower bud ...


The blooms ...

Hippeastrum Jungle Bells

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Another new Amaryllis was in bloom yesterday. Jungle Bells bulb that I purchased from Maria off eBay has finally bloomed, 26 days after arriving here.

Here is the pictorial progress ...

The bulb, immediately after arrival on 4th Feb, was having a root soak ...


7 days later, it was growing slowly ...


15 days later, the bud was finally pushed out of the bulb ...


18 days later, the scape was getting longer ....


... then, on day 25, the two flower buds were bulging, ready to 'pop'


in the morning of day 26, one of the buds bloomed partially ..


And the full bloom in the evening of day 26 ...horray!!! I got to witness with my own eyes, a fully double light green Hippeastrum!




Happy!!!!!! :-D :-D :-D

Hippeastrum Zombie, part 2

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After much anticipation .... the first zombie finally opened up on 30th Dec 2008, which is about 19 days after being potted ... it receives indirect sunlight during the day, and florescent light during the night .... I think that's one of the reasons the flower bloom in less than 20 days. Normally, as stated by the grower, it will need 28 days to bloom .... the other reasons could be :
1) Warm weather
2) Baja seaweed 8-)

For information, this is my first full double amaryllis and the first bulb that I purchased from overseas, coming from the USA. I was anxiously waiting with anticipation. Will the bulb arrive at all? Will it grow and produce beautiful blooms as depicted in the catalogue?

Now ... for the sequel, this is the gallery ... entahlah today feel like writing in English pulak ... all the pictures were snapped on 1.1.09, what a way to start the 1st morning of 2009 ... greeted by a zombie!!!

Two scapes ... the first scape produces 3 buds (2 are in bloom when the pictures were taken) and the second scape produce 4 buds (also 2 in bloom).


This is the picture taken from another angle . Notice that the bloom is facing a bit downwards ...


This is taken outside, the black background was removed, in its natural environment ...


Close-up of the bloom ... notice no stigma and pollens ... so, I am not putting much hope in collecting seeds from this variety ...


This is the picture of a showy zombie ... jadi bahan tayangan, placed on a garden table in my terrace ...


That's all folks ... hope you all enjoy the show 8-) 8-) 8-)

Hippeastrum Zombie, part 1

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Cerita pasal Amaryllis/Hippeastrum 'Zombie'. Kenapa ia dinamakan Zombie entahlah ... ikut teorinya, sebab bunganya kembang tunduk sikit ....

Bawang ni dibeli secara tender melalui e-Bay dengan harga USD6.01 sebiji. Kos penghantaran USD5.65. Jumlah dalam RM sebanyak RM 37, kira OK lah sebab jauh nak hantar tu, dari USA lagi. Ikut ceritanya bulb ni dibiakkan di South Africa, lepas tu dihantar ke Holland. Kemudian dihantar kpd distributor/seller kat USA. Dari USA, bulb ni diterbangkan ke Putrajaya... hehehe dah jauh berjalan mengelilingi dunia ni ...
Bulb ni sampai masa kami tengah bercuti raya haji ... posmen baling je kotak tu dari pintu agar ke bawah porch .. :rant:

Ni gambo masa lepas buka ... kulit dan akarnya dah kering ... masih boleh idop ke ni? :-) :-) :-)


Selepas dikupas kulitnya yg kering ... ehhh ada dua bublets melekat, bila dah agak beso, nak asingkan masuk pasu lain ... heppi sesangat :-> :-> :->

Pastu rendam bhg akarnya dalam air overnight, supaya akarnya segar balik dan lembut ... senang nak tanam dalam tanah ... 8-) 8-) 8-)


Dah siap tanam dalam pasu ... media tanah campur pasir sebab pokok jenis bebawang memerlukan well draining soil ...kalau tak akarnya akan tumbuh fungus dan mereput :-) :-) :-)


Seminggu kemudian ...jeng-jeng-jeng dah keluar scape/spike ... wahhh ... ada DUA scape... lelagi hepi ... :-D :-D :-D


Sekian untuk kali ini .... tunggu posting yang akan datang kalau nak tengok bunganya ... hehehe :wave: