I ordered and received my cluster of Supreme Garden from Royal Colors, and I just love it! I actually have 2 clusters, due to the lost order that finally arrived, a little worse for wear... I had to split up one cluster as the center bulb was a bit rotten, and I ended up with 3 small pots, each containing 2 or more bulbs... the blooms are spectacular! I can't wait to see the other whole cluster in full bloom!

I'm a bit confused, though... I don't find Lovely Garden on Royal Colors' website anywhere... all I can find is the Supreme Garden...

Either way, Paxfleur, you'll love your cluster! They are healthy bulbs, and bloom so beautifully! Very soon after planting, my cluster and the separated bulbs all began growing scapes!

Looking at your pictures, Jodi, I believe you have Lovely Garden. Royal Colors sold it last year, and this year they are selling Supreme Garden. They had a few Lovely Garden klisters, so they are sending them out to "special" customers who ask for the red variety... You are lucky/unlucky that your Supreme Garden turned out Lovely Garden. The addedd bonus would be if your second package's bulbs would really be Supreme Garden. This way you could have received both of the garden series for the price of one... Sounds good. I hope it will turn out like that.

Pardon, what is the context of the "Garden" series with Veronica?! Did she baptize them or how or what... ?!

Well... my original order was for Supreme Garden... that's the only variety they have on their website... or at least, that's what they have written on their website... the photo they have is of Lovely Garden, I think. It appears to be red/orange with no center star or eye.

The first cluster I received has bloomed with red/orange flowers having no eye or star...

The second cluster I received is still in bud, so I won't know until it blooms... but I'm thinking it will be another Lovely Garden, just as their photo shows...

It doesn't really matter to me what they turn out to be... whether Lovely or Supreme... they are both beautiful, and I have to report that the bulbs I have are prolific bloomers, and the scape height and flower size are excellent. I'm very pleased!

It's strange, though, that I can hardly find mention of Lovely Garden on the internet, and I can't locate a good photograph, unless you count the one on RC's website! The photo on Brent & Becky's website depicts the real Supreme Garden, I'm assuming...

Once again, my propensity to act like a complete blonde is showing! Doh! I must make a correction... Royal Colors DOES have a proper picture of Supreme Garden on their website! I just couldn't see it clearly because I have poor vision!

Yes, it's true... I'm getting older and my body is slowly failing me, part by part... I'm getting more blind as time goes by... and apparently deaf, as well! Larry says I shout when I talk, and I keep the television volume up way too high!

I rather thought I was too young to have these things happen, but I keep forgetting that I have Lupus to help push me into old age before my time! Oh well... it was bound to happen sooner or later... the next picture you see of me will contain a pair of bifocals hanging around my neck, suspended from a lovely beaded cord!

My Lovely Garden is blooming right now, and my unknown Garden is in full bud... pictures will be forthcoming as the flowers open!

Sorry folks... I'm half blind and losing my mind... not the best things to have happen at the same time! :-)

Pax...Supreme garden and Supreme Garden are the only varieties I know that are available of this "klister" series.
Hi Jodi! My Lovely Garden, tagged as Lovely Garden is in bloom right now. I will post pics later or start a new thread on it later. Got to pick up one my daughters in school (college). Ana and Em are enjoying this "Snow day".

Pax...I meant Lovely garden and Supreme garden. Sorry...

Maria, didn't you make some new crosses of the klister series with your Supreme and Lovely Garden? I would love to see pics of your Lovely and Supreme Garden! =) I really really really hope they come out with new Gardens in the colors pink and white. =)

Yes, I have a LOT of seedlings growing from crosses with Supreme Garden. I am just now working and planning on Lovely garden crosses. Hopefully, in a few years, we can get to see different colored "klisters". A green, a white, a pink, a spotted, a striped, a double, a trumpet, a variegated one... Ohhhh, the possibilities are endless. :-)

That would be wonderful... clusters of bulbs in more colors than just the orange and red! Although, my red flowers are really pretty, all grouped together and blooming! I'm hopeful of the second cluster I have being the orange Supreme variety...

It's frustrating to have to wait so long to see the results of crosses and breedings... I can't wait to see your results, Maria! You all have such a head start on me! I'm only just germinating my first seeds now! Oh, the wait!

Maria, I'll be looking forward to the success of your crosses! =) The possibilities are indeed endless and the sky's the limit! And although the wait may be quite long before you are able to reap the fruits of your labor, I am sure you shall be rewarded with great success. =)

Jodi, that is so awesome that you ended up with Lovely Garden AND Supreme Garden. =) Way to kill two birds with one stone and in a beautiful way as well. I was going to get Supreme Garden as well but I figured I should get Lovely Garden first because it wasn't commercially available on the market this season and Supreme Garden seemed to be more readily available (RC and Brent & Beckys). I was hoping to get a Supreme Garden at Brent and Beckys annual 50% sale but they excluded all hippeastrums this season......there's always next season I suppose. =) I'll be looking forward to your future crosses as well.

So far, I know I have Lovely Garden... as soon as this other klister blooms, I'll know for sure whether or not I also have Supreme Garden... it would certainly be nice to have both, but I'll be happy with whatever it is... they're both beautiful!

I'd love to get more bulbs this season, but I think after I get these last 5 I have on order, I'm done until the summer order with Maguire's... I fear that the later it gets, the worse shape the bulbs might be in... and as you say, there's always next year! It gives me something to look forward to when next fall arrives! By then, I should have professional grow lights and a real greenhouse!

Pax,
I had very bad experiences with Brent and Becky's 50% off sale. They had the amaryllis bulbs in it last year, and they sent me all the bulbs I ordered, but they were all in very bad shape. Supreme Garden has never bloomed for me. ANY of the bulbs. The large ones even died. All the other bulbs I got from them had problems with scapes. Most of them brought extremely deformed flowers and scapes. And on the top of that, when you order the 50% off deal, they force you to pay for 2nd day air shipping that offsets almost all the benefits of the 50% off deal anyway. So last year was the first and last one I have ordered anything from Brent and Becky's. I have enough problems. I don't want to get disappointed by my flowers too.