Here in my garden blossomed...Ismene Sulphur Queen.

six flowers on the same scape!

Good morning Kristi :)

These bulbs - not purchased but grown in my garden. ;)

Really Beautiful!!!

Hi Donna!

Thank you very much!

Can you ask for a comment on "interesting seedling"? To me it is important to know your opinion. :)

Hi Oleg.

The reason I didn't comment on your picture before is I really had no idea what the cross could be and didn't really have anything to say about it that would have been helpful. Now that I see that it puts out 4 flowers it looks much prettier to me but I'm afraid I still don't have anything helpful to add. I think I would have liked it more if the red marking had been stronger or not there at all and I know when we bloom a seedling we all think that everyone will love them as much as we do.☺☺☺☺ Donna

Clearly. Thanks.

About parents, I assumed that the guess about the parents is not difficult. For example, where a pleasant aroma and the ripple? Of course from a parent. You know the variety hippeastrum with the ripple and green flowers with a fragrance? Consequently these features are obtained from red parent. This seedling has a small flower, this means that both parents have a medium-sized flower too.
Then, what variety a red flower has the aroma and ripple? Of course, my Johnsonii, I even showed him somehow.
Then, do you know how many varieties with a small green flower? Widespread only one - Evergreen.
About Komoriya I do not say.

Look and compare!

Hi Oleg,

Well, you probably won't believe me, but the first thing that popped into my head when I first saw your seedling several days ago was Evergreen but I was sure I wasn't right. That just goes to show that one's very first initial impression before one starts over analyzing things is most likely the correct guess. I would never have guessed your Johnsonii though, which by the way is just gorgeous!! And here I was always telling people that red is usually the dominant color!!! Wrong again.....☺☺

* Wrong again..*

Why wrong? Let's face it. Johnsonii obtained from Hippeastrum reginae x H. vittatum. That Johnsonii has half the genes of white. And Evergreen genes has no red at all. Therefore, the result of crossing will about 50% red and 50% white \ green. Well, because the white genes vittatum cause partial loss of red pigment and green pigment genes of Evergreen give self color we obtain red brushmark weakened.

Correction: in this stalk flowers do not 6, but 7. On the right side 1 blooming, bud 1, 1 faded and 1 remote but left ovary. On the left
one flowering, 1 open bud and ovary of a remote flower. Total seven flowers.

Blossoms also Ismene Festalis:

Very lovely Oleg!! Some day if I ever realize my greenhouse dream, these will be on my list to try for sure!! Prettier than many amaryllis for sure! I love the stout leaves on Sulfur Queen. Are you in zone 9?

Donna

Hi Donna!
Of course, growing up in the garden Ismene is beautiful . However, do not bloom as long as hippeastrum. But the flavor of this is gorgeous and so exotic addition to the garden.
No, not in the zone 9, I live in zone 6a

Oleg,

I thought the 9 in your Oleg9Grower was your zone.☺ How do you grow these in the ground in zone 6a, do you lift them in the winter and let them dry and store in a cellar and then replant in the spring? I'm curious, as you have them happily growing in the ground. I am in zone 6b. more or less the same.

Donna

Donna,
Well, I never wrote like that I live in zones 9.
Regarding cultivation - yes, I dig the bulbs every year in October. Then dried and stored dry in a room (in the basement not) in a box on the floor.
Spring again planted in the ground, as you wrote.So I'm doing for many years. The only problem is the NBF. But you can use insecticides , although Ismene bulb so big that the larva can not eat it entirely.
Next season grows a lot of small bulb.

Oleg

I want to show Ismene variegated, with striped leaves. I do not remember, can already show ...

It is good that decorates my garden even when not in bloom. Ie not days but months.

believe it or not...these and crinum grow wild in ditches around here!!

Kristi,
I believe that Crinum in your area grows wild in nature. Ismene? I doubt it ... Especially Variegata - a mutation occurred in my garden many years ago as a sport out of the ordinary Ismene festalis. Maybe (if the plant is variegated) is Hymenocallis littoralis Variegata?
Photo of I. festalis variegata I have not seen anywhere else - neither the Internet nor in the catalogs of companies selling bulbs. So,
if you can provide evidence of the existence of this form - please submit them.

Not the varigated ones, but giant Hymenocallis grow wild!! Southernbulbs.com goes out and collects them and sells them.

Yes, I know that in the South of the United States are growing wild in nature Hymenocallis. You are lucky!

Hello Oleg,

I completely missed this thread. Thanks for the conclusion of your xJohnsonii x 'Evergreen' cross!

Hi Carl!
Thanks for the kind words. You have written the Baltic coast, so that we are neighbors. The truth is I do not live on the coast and a little further south, where now there is a hybrid war. I am pleased that my information is useful for you.

And one more thing, my xJohnsonii is different from the clones that have spread in the United States.