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H. Temptation

19 years ago

Temptation bloomed while I was away on my vacation. One flower waited for me to enjoy and take a picture of. Another scape has come out and will be having more flowers to enjoy soon. It has a very good similarity with Charisma but the flowers are bigger.

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Comments (10)

  • 19 years ago

    Now I'll have to plant it too... You are always ahead of me!

  • 19 years ago

    You can sure see the similarity to Charisma. Very nice.

  • 19 years ago

    Maria I have missed your pictures while you were away. Nice to have you back!

  • 19 years ago

    Soultan...This is the last of the newly purchased bulbs for me this season that has bloomed with the exception of Striped Panther that refuses to give me any kind of growth. It is just sitting there and decided to give out a baby. All the amaryllises are planted and will need to leaf out and store energy before fall.

    palmcoastgarden...I still need to get Showmaster which seems to be similar to Temptation and Charisma also.

    dizzy...Thanks! I will be posting some pics of my rebloomers for you. I have quite a few this year that are putting out some scapes.

  • 19 years ago

    I have the same problem with Sugar Candy. It is firm, sitting there and NOT doing anything. I wonder if it will ever wake up. I planted it around November, and it is under the same condition that the other 80 planted right now, so if it is good for 80, should be good for one...
    I bought Striped Panther last year and liked it a lot. It is not a very showy kind, but it is very good at giving out multiple stakes with more than 4 blooms on each, and I don't want to lie, but as if it were slightly scented... The shape of the flowers are also nice trumpet. So even though the coloration is really earthy (as opposed to heavenly), I really like it... I have not planted it yet this year. I don't even know where it is in the fridge.
    But I just see, that around 80 percent of the bulbs that I mistreated because of the move and they shrunk and almost died GIVE OUT SCAPES. They just want to bloom. It is amazing. Golfball sized Charisma is shooting out flower scape! Baby Star is even smaller and it prepares to bloom. Amazing. They just don't give up on me. They say sooner or later I will learn how to take good care of them so this one year of suffering was worth the future feast... How I love them.

  • 19 years ago

    Two days of rain and more...Me and the amaryllises sure needed that. Temp. has gone down to 80s (hope it stays that way) after almost a week of 90s. Misting the ammmies at least 3 times a day has been fun though. Specially when the my 6 and 9 year old would join in to get wet and cool down...lol!

    Anyway, this is Temptation's bloom on it's second scape. It has been grown outside since I came back. It received full sun with temps warmer by 10-15 degrees than the basement where the first scape/flowers bloomed.

    A totally new look...
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    It has more white in it with the picotee more pronounced.
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    Despite being grown in full sun, it's scape grew to 26 inches tall. Together with the collection which are mostly potted in 8 inch pots now and some of the seedlings enjoying this refreshing day...
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  • 19 years ago

    Wonderful flower. I have Showmaster. Will be interesting to see how much it differs from your flower. Where did you get Temptation? Smith & Hawken?

  • 19 years ago

    Wonderful flower. I have Showmaster. Will be interesting to see how much it differs from your flower. Where did you get Temptation? Smith & Hawken?

  • 19 years ago

    Hi Soultan! This one came from Royal Colors. It was a nice, big and healthy bulb. As you can see in the pic above, it almost filled up the 6 inch pot.

    Please take time to take a pic of Showmaster. I would like to see the difference/similarity too.

  • 19 years ago

    But you bought it from Royal colors long ago, right? I haven't seen Temptation on their site this year or the two years before this. But my memory can trick me... But I think I only remember Temptation from Smith & Hawken's site.