Very interesting! This is the sort of thing that interests me the most... crossing the slightly different Amaryllids to see the different types of plants that will result. From the little I've seen so far, it's an amazing avenue of bulb/plant breeding!

Thanks im only 16 years old and i have been interested in plants sice the age of 5, it all started when my mom brought me to grocery stores like a&P. I started admiring them i always loved seeing amaryllis bloom during christmas they were and are so beautifull, i know so much about plants it's unbelievable, so when my neighbours need help with their plants like multypling them, what's wrong with them, i always give them advice that works, and the same goes everywhere, i collect and grow cacti from seed, amaryllis from seed and bulbs, bulblets, i love succulents, my dream is to crossbreed atleast one new plant that no one has ever created before.

Ahhhh...the young and the dreamer. Go and reach for the stars. Nothing is impossible. Remember that KNOWLEDGE shall always be your guiding light in this path that you have chosen to walk. All the luck for you!!! :-)

Awesome to hear of your experiment and best of luck to you! Please do keep us posted on what develops!

-Frank

Greetings hippeastrumadmirer,

Please tell us your name and where you live in Canada.

I wish you the best of luck and welcome you warmly!

Best,

Blanca

I, too, have been interested in plants since I was quite young... although, not quite as young as you! I imagine you will go on to study horticulture, botany, taxonomy, those sorts of things in college... what a wonderfully interesting life you could lead! The stars are reachable... you just have to want them bad enough!

Please do keep us posted... and be sure to share some photos!

My goal is to crossbreed some of the different Amaryllids and get different colors and types of blooms. Of course, I'm still collecting my stock!

I'll be stunned if this intergeneric is fertile, but I wish you all the luck in the world.....there have been many intergenerics made in the Amaryllid family so you never know when you will find the correct combination :o)

I too loved plants when I was young and got my first "bonsai" when I was around 12 or so with my dad at a garden center......never went into botany, but did end up a scientist that loves plants and the rarer and more obscure they are the more I like them!! My current interest is in South African and South American Amaryllids!!!

I look forward to your future posts :o) Dan

I have the same Amaryllid interests that Dan does, and I'm always very intrigued by his photos of newly acquired plants and new blooms!

I've been drooling over the Nerines on the site I've listed below... the Lachenalias there are lovely, too! I'm trying to figure out how I can afford to have some of these beauties integrated into my collection!

Here is a link that might be useful: The Exbury Nerines