Very beautiful! I always adore plants as a whole in pots.
Thanks for sharing.

Xuan

A closer look.

The flowers are about 4.5 inches (11.5cm) across. The stigma is very small with its lobes just barely parted.

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What a gorgeous colour - and lovely petal structure/shape. I wonder if my Orange Souvereign will be orange like that?...

Anna

I've wondered too, how the color compares with Orange Sovereign, since I haven't grown that one myself.

The color of Supreme Garden is lighter on opening and deepens as they mature, especially if given good light. The orange shows a redder tone as it deepens.

A lot of the pix on the net show Orange Sovereign as definitely red and not orange, and I know that that can be a camera fault and it is possible some of those pictured are misidentified. OS *is* described has been described as "Deep tangerine orange-red with intense color saturation."

Hope you can get some pix of your OS when it blooms.

R.

just georgous, raydio! I am hoping to get your package together next week, since I finally have my hip surgery scheduled, and will be rehabilitating after that. So I will get yours out to you. This is similar to my orange plant but your throas is white and mine is deeper orange in the center. The overall color looks 'right-on' to mine, though.

This is my Supreme Garden. I did not expect it to flourish as is from the terrible condition of the bulb cluster I got.
The flower...four 4inch tangerine orange.

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the side view...

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the seperated SG bulbs planted in 5 1/2in azalea pots. Scape is 12 in tall...

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SG has a very good similarity to H. Puniceum except for the flowercolor which is deeper and brighter orange. Smallest bulb that has produced a scape is just 10cm fit for a tea cup just like the Japanese super minis.

wow, what a bulbs...
the blooms are beautiful!

LOVELY, Maria!!!!!

Oh my! That tangerine colour is breathtaking - mouthwatering! Lovely - thanks for sharing, Maria.

Thanks and your all very welcome!!! This just makes me very curious about how Lovely Garden(LG) would look like. I can't wait till the weather warms up and get my order of LG shipped.

I have 1 question, if you look here: http://www.hippeastrum-forum.de/thread.php?threadid=233
[hippeastrum forum germany]
than I see a another supreme garden, completly red, and this one is more oranje with a little bit a white/yellow stripes, wich one is the real H. Supreme Garden?

I don't speak German, so please excuse that. ;-)

At the top of the page,(hippeastrum-forum.de) the picture from Gila is not Supreme Garden. It looks to be a large-flowered hybrid.

The picture of the large clump of amaryllis from Edgardener is possibly H. striatum or a var. of same. It is a very old cultivar and has been in the US for many decades. A woman on eBay (ebay ID "myheartmysoulmyson") posts the same picture with seeds she is selling:
http://cgi.ebay.com/EVERGREEN-ORANGE-AMARYLLIS-HIPPEASTRUM-SEEDS_W0QQitemZ180073600941QQihZ008QQcategoryZ3184QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

The plant at http://www.mein-schoener-garten.de/ , on the left of the picture and tagged 'Supreme Garden' *is* Supreme Garden'.

'Supreme Garden' was registered in 2002. It was introduced in London in 2003 at a flower show. 'Supreme Garden' was first available in the US in the fall of 2006. It might have been available in Europe before it was offered in the US, I don't know. It was not available anywhere before 2002.

R.

Here is a link that might be useful: IBS entry for H. blossfeldiae

wow, thnx that do you have nicely explained!

I love this plant. Some of the bulbs are still in the box, and this post made me go look at them. Most are putting up scapes right in the box! I guess I have to plant them now!

Plant_Guy

Here is a link that might be useful: My Amaryllis Page

A garden awaits you..........

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Very nice Raydio! How tall are the scapes of your SG?

Maria~

Three scapes are blooming:

21", 23", 27" from shoulder to the umbel node.

There are three scapes coming and I'll measure them when they bloom.

I've staked all the scapes. They are on the thin side and being grown mostly indoors now in poor light.

R.

My SG has two scapes, 12" and 13" tall, that are right now in bloom. Two scapes same size that are about to open and another two that are coming out. These are from the babies of the rotten mother bulb. They look so cute...a miniature garden. I did pollinate some flowers with Jade Serpent(SA green sonatini) and Gilmar pollen. My Jade Serpent has a scape that's about to open. I then would pollinate it with SG pollen.

Maria~

One thing about my crosses using SG: The SG flowers that I have dabbed, seem to react more slowly than other cultivars. I'm hoping this is just typical and not a sign that the pollens are not taking. And conversely, those flowers that I have pollinated with SG likewise seem slower to react than they have with known compatible pollens. Again, I'm hoping that some other factor is behind this, or maybe my perception is off, and that SG isn't double sterile.

Do keep us posted on your crosses and I will do the same.

R.

Keep us posted, Robert! Sounds almost as if they are triploid, doesn't it?

I have 5 scapes forming on my smaller klister of bulbs. Like Maria, I potted the small bulbs in two separate pots rather than one big one. I wanted to give them lots of room to make more 'klisters'.

Can't wait to see these with my own eyes! Thanks, Robert for the lead on this one!

Dare I write it, too?

It might just be a triploid. I guess they make up for that by offsetting like mad, which they do, whatever the ploidy.

Time will tell........

I sure will Raydio. Unfortunately, I do not record the date I pollinate my flowers so there is no way I would know if they are really being slow. I just watch...and watch...and watch...lol! I do write the name of the pollen donor in masking tape which I cut to like 1/4" thick and 2"wide and loop it around the pedicel.
My first successful pollination (I hope) this season is GilmarXGilmar and GilmarXWedding Dance. It's seed pods has a reddish color too.

When I finally got into the habit of always tagging my crosses, I just put the pollen donor, thinking I'd add the pod parent if it took.

Then, whenever I'd read anything about the length of time it took to get seed, I started adding that too, so I'd know exactly how long it took that bloom to shed seed. And also to know how long it took for the cross to show obvious failure.

Now I can add all that to my notes on each plant. Cause I know someone will ask. lol.

I have seeds this season from Limona x striatum and Oskar x self.

The pedicels and pods on my SG are naturally pale green and slightly yellowish, so that might using color as a key for determining cross failure. It's been so overcast here for weeks!

Congratulations on your Gilmar crosses!!!

Thanks Raydio! I just hope they won't be "dud" seeds. We have been having overcast days here too that's why I placed the pollinated SG in the best spot of my bright window. I just checked on them tonight and 2 of the pods did increase in size...just a little bit though.

That is strange it is very similar to H. Puniceum. I have been growing this one for over 20 years. It produces bulbs like bunnies. I have them in every pot. have given away to so many people LOL

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It even blooms all summer

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Hi,

I have Orange Soveriegn that bloomed this year and I was thinking , it's more red them orange. Definately NOT a tangerine orange.
I like it but I personally prefer a cheerier shade of orange.
Cheryl

1st scape - 4 flowers pollinated with Jade Serpent
- 1 seedpod dried out, 3 seedpods are now
marble size

2nd scape - 3 flowers pollinated with Gilmar
- 1 seedpod dried out, 2 seedpods 1/2 marble size

How are your SG pollination going guys?

I've done a wagon-load with SG as the mama, and they're all good so far. Whoopee!

I've not done as many with SG as pollen donor, most of my bulbs are still resting, but I have been saving the pollen.

I have terrible light indoors in winter (which explains why the scapes on mine are so much taller than yours, in part anyway) and pod development is likewise on the slow side. But I have noticed that unpollinated blooms fade very quickly and that gives me encouragement for the pods that are growing.

Of course, as we all know, a pod can develop for quite awhile before aborting, so I'm not counting my seeds just yet.

Looking real good:
Striatum x Supreme Garden
Supreme Garden x self
Supreme Garden x Lima
Supreme Garden x Emerald
Supreme Garden x papilio.

Haven't done Supreme Garden x striatum yet, but I foresee no problem there.
R.

Oh My...I have the vapors!!

mariava7 - I just researched jade serpent. What a georgous flower. I hope yours does well.

Thanks Cindeea! Yes it is cute and extraordinary. I will start a new post about it.