Jodi,

It looks like you put more than one seed per pot for your potted babies.

The Amaryllis seeds that I started in water outdoors will soon need to be potted. Indoors, I use small starter cells with one seed per cell. I'm thinking that outdoors, a larger container would be better (less soil temperature variation) with more than one seed per cell to save space.

Jodi, that color is so beautiful and the flower shape is delicately lovely! What a nice find among the weeds.

Actually, those little seedlings were germinated in a 72 cell flat... they outgrew the cells, and I recently potted them in the 2 and 3 inch pots you see in the photo, and I was able to fit 2 or 3 seedlings per pot. Since there were only a few seedlings of each variety, I kept each kind together. I think it will be quite a while before they'll need to be planted in individual pots. They're incredibly slow growers!

Thanks, Blanca! Delicate does describe them perfectly... in looks, anyway! There are several buds yet to open... I just hope all the dogs don't trample them down before they get a chance to bloom fully... I'd like to get more photos! I wonder if I dare pollinate them? I'm not sure the dogs will leave them alone long enough for pods to form! I could try, though... I just might!

WOW, just beautiful. I've got some dormant in pots right now I'm scared to plant them out because of the narcissus bulb fly issue here. I hope they do well in pots.
Jodi, be careful around the plant in the first two photos. Looks like poison ivy growing behind them.

I haven't tried growing the Lycoris squamigera in pots... since it does fine in our zone, I planted a dozen in the bulb bed last fall... the ones in the photos were planted there about 40 years ago, by the home owner's Mother. I'm surprised they survived all these years!

It probably is Poison Ivy in the photo! We have Poison Ivy growing everywhere here! I've gotten in the habit of always wearing garden gloves and shoes, instead of flip-flops... and we keep anti-itch creme, and all sorts of cures for Poison Ivy in the medicine cabinet! Between the ticks and biting insects, and all the poison ivy growing everywhere, I sometimes wonder if it was a good thing gaining a garden zone by moving a little bit south!

Here in KY we call the pink flowers Neked Ladies because in the spring they send up leaves but die away before the flowers appear. As for the poison ivy I just read a very old remedy for it is jewel weed. Google poison ivy remedy to see what jewel weed looks like.

Joan in KY

These beauties are called by many names... Naked Ladies, Surprise Lilies, Amaryllis, Lycoris... and I'm sure there are more! We just ordered another 20 bulbs to put in the new garden area! Next summer, they should be lovely!

I wonder if Jewel Weed is another weed we have growing in abundance here? We do seem to have abundant weeds, along with abundant poison ivy! Ivy-Dry works really fast to dry out the rash and stop the itch and burning, we have found. With all the poison ivy I've been exposed to lately, I've only gotten two tiny bumps on my wrist... not bad for pulling out the vines for two days running!

Jodi, jewelweed is a native impatiens plant. It can get pretty invasive if the conditions are right for it but I don't have problems with it here as it is easy to pull once it starts seeding about. The seeds are edible and have a mild wallnut taste to me! Google Impatiens capensis and you'll find a lot of information.
Chaz

Thanks, Chaz! I spent yesterday afternoon working on the corner garden, and you wouldn't believe all the poison ivy vines I pulled out of the ground! I know that it multiplies like crazy if you just cut it up... in order to get rid of it, it must be removed and disposed of, and not on the compost pile, either!

I was out there in shorts and flip-flops, although I did wear gloves... and not a bump or itch on me! I must have a partial immunity built up, or something! I despair of ever truly getting rid of the stuff... it's everywhere! But, the more I can pull up and get rid of, the better!

Incidentally, I'm digging Iris this week, so I'll have your yellows ready to go! I'll email you before I ship.