Amaryllis

It’s truly a sight to behold when that aristocrat of bulbs, the amaryllis, produces its regal bloom in time to celebrate the festive Christmas season. You can grow Christmas-blooming Dutch

It is a pleasure to offer the accompanying photograph as the first ever published of a rare and beautiful American bulb, the white variety of the American Belladonna, now known

“Go West, young man, go West!” was the cry of yesteryear, and an era of progress followed in the wake of turning wagon wheels.  I have been saying, “Go North,

You will delight in growing the hardy amaryllis (Lycoris squamigera) if you enjoy unusual plants.  The bulbs were not too plentiful for a long period, but they are in good

Red spider lilies (Lycoris radiata) raise their red umbrellas in the flower borders of the middle south during drought-stricken September, bringing the only vivid coloring to a parched land.  The

The royal group of spectacular flowering bulbs, the Haemanthus or blood lilies, forming one of the amaryllis family’s most colorful and aristocratic sections, shows a strong and steady upward trend

A new race of hybrid amaryllis has come upon the American scene. Named for its originator, it is called the Buller strain, after the late Arthur C. Buller (1874-1959) of