Hello All, Today’s topic of Naked Ladies is very informative. Ben and I bought our home 27 years ago and found these flowers everywhere around the house. We discovered our little 80 year-young neighbor planted this variety throughout the neighborhood. …
Day: August 11, 2011
to A. belladonna "Femmina nuda"
http://www.plantingflowerbulbs.com/amaryllis-belladonna-the-belladonna-lily. htm http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantab/amarylbella.htm http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2377/ http://www.plant-biology.com/Amaryllis-belladonnaLily-naked-ladies.php Hello, Indeed, there are of course differences in the use of words in various Italian regions. “Femmina” is quite common in Napels but in other parts of Italy it is used by schoolchildren up to…
to A. belladonna
Hello, Indeed, there are of course differences in the use of words in various regions. “Femmina” is quite common in Napels but in other parts of Italy it is used by schoolchildren up to 10 or 11 years of age.…
Nanus and minor
Have any of our intrepid daffodil explorers ever seen populations of either nanus or minor in the wild? Perhaps Kathy Andersen or Brian Duncan have? Harold
Amaryllis belladonna
The naked ladies I know in the United States are Lycoris squamigera; in the Amaryllidaceae family, but not the genus Amaryllis. According to Scott Ogden in his book, “Garden Bulbs for the South,” they hail from Japan and the genus is…