Beautiful! What are they?

1 The white are PANCRATIUM NARCIFLORA (SEA DEFODIL).
2 THE red is HAEMANTHUS MULTIFLORA (FOOT BALL LILLY)
ARIF

Here is an other one CRENUM ASCIATCUM.
It is a big no biggest of the bulbs that I have seen.Spaced 6 feet appart.The flower stalk is 2 inches thick and 4 to 5 feet tall.The bunch produces about 20 flowers over 4to 5 days.the flowers are highly scented.The fregrance fills the room.

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Very eye catching. The Pancratium reminds me somewhat of a Hymenocallis. What type of soil, sun do these do best in for you?

I think they are the same thing - hymenocallis and pancratium. But tell me, how do you get it to bloom? I have had mine in the ground for 4 years now, and it gets tons of big strapping foliage, but no blooms. Did I plant too deep, or what. The soil is great where I planted it - it does get about 6 hours of sun, but darned if I can figure out why it won't bloom.

Susan

It is a tricky question, The ones I care the most do not bloom as well as the ones I just leave alone.Sami shade to fullsun is best as they are dorment in hot summer.

The Hymenocallis I planted last spring bloomed just fine it's first year. This year all foliage no bloom. Years ago I plunked one down in my border in part shade and every year for years the foliage would come up, but no blooms. I thought it was too much shade so on the new one gave it more sun. At least I got 1 bloom out of it last year. It's reportedly only marginally winter hardy in zone 7, so am kind of surprised it comes up every year. Mine is in well drained soil, but outside of that and water, it is basically on it's own. Glad I didn't spend a lot of money on this as it's quite frustrating.

Yeah, Maryl - me, too. I think it is coming out next spring and something else will go in its place. I have a few things I need to replace that I'm getting tired of struggling with, you know?

Susan

Pretty Haemanthus!!! :-)

Susan...the best display of Pancriatum/hymenocallis I've seen were grown on the south side of a VERY old home in S. California. They got full sun all morning, until about 2pm....then filtered light from a tree for the hottest part of the day. They'd grown to big plants over the years in this exposure, and the blooms were lovely in mid-summer. They make better pot plants, however, for zones 8 and below, as they're only really hardy to zone 8, and just don't bloom for very long at best.

(Potted up...You can move the green plant out of sight or behind some pots of blooming plants when they aren't in bloom themselves.)

Another hint...feed/topdress them with some organic fertilizer in early spring and after they bloom. Like their cousins, the amaryllis, I've found they're healthiest when well fed, and a bit root bound when young.

Good luck !

I may find it in the goodness of my heart to try them in a pot, but then I would have to winter them over inside somewhere, or throw them out. I don't have a lot of indoor room, and that which I do have will be given over to the aroids, no questions asked.

I do have them in a location where they get morning to early afternoon sun and shade the rest of the day. Go figure. You know sometimes a plant just doesn't work out for one individual given the same set of circumstances, and who knows why. I would love to have seen it bloom, but I can always think of something else to go in its place - like MILKWEEDS FOR THE MONARCHS!

Susan

I think they've changed Haemanthus, too, I am almost sure it's Scadoxus now. Beautiful pictures, I love the spoon shaped petals on the Pancratium most.

Ditto Susan on the site I have mine in. I also put one in a pot last year as well as in the ground. The one in the pot sprouted great foliage but never bloomed. I left the pot out over the winter because, like you, I'm out of room inside to overwinter things that are finicky. This spring I decided that I could use this pot for something else and pitched the bulb. It hadn't sprouted yet, but the bulb looked perfectly viable. If you have an extra pot you might try it.

Kyaa haal hai?
You're making me miss Pakistan even more than normal - no fair!! My husband and I spent four happy years in Islamabad, while he worked at the American Embassy there. I can still smell the gardens in my memory, especially the night blooming jasmine.

Brigarif - I know you're in Pakistan, but boy would I love to find that gorgeous crenum you are growing. What a fantasticly beautiful plant! I doubt it is hardy here, but it would make a great summer blooming bulb in our hot Oklahoma weather.

Susan

Crinum! Gorgeous, huge, and smells good! Wow!

Caladiums are doing it too, not necessarily showy, and easiest to see from behind.