Yes very handsome! Such bright colors!

Hi Oleg,

Your Nerine are very beautiful. I had them (bowdenii) growing in my garden many years ago, but our very cold winter would damage their very late blooming flowers. It's a shame because they really were quite lovely.

Fred

So funny how different we are with our different climates. In Florida, we are just entering our growing season. - J

If we talk about the brightness of the color of the flower Nerine, then this is such a variety. I have and usual pink

Yes, our climates very different, But this is not the reason for their

do not grow, do you?

But we do not have tornadoes, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. )))

Greetings from Western Ukraine.

My daughter with hippeastrum

Hi Oleg,

I did have them in the garden but eventually they faded and never came back. The ones I currently grow are in pots and are hybrids of sarniensis so they're much more tender and also come in for the winter. Thank you for your beautiful pictures and your daughter is very lovely :-)))

Fred

Thank you very much Fred. My nerine hybrids from bowdenii, for sarniensis we have little light in winter. At this time, bowdenii is asleep.

My daughter is certainly nice, but a little ROBBER rrrrrrr)))

Oleg I will have to enjoy your nerine. I tried growing them and they survived the first year and then also disappeared.

Your daughter is beautiful and her smile makes me smile :) They do grow up too fast - Jody

Jody, thank you so much for your answer. Yes it's true. Children grow too fast. But they can not remain "evergreen" like this tree Buxus sempervirens on this photo .

I hope that my daughter is beautiful - just like my country UKRAINE, wild, freedom-loving, proud of its thousand-year history. .She suffers, bleeds, she poor, but still stands up to the aggressor.

But they don't lose their "leaves" during winter... Congratulations to your beautiful daughter, Oleg!

I saw yellow autumn bloomers in southern Italy (Ischia) two weeks ago. Can anybody help me with an id?

Hi Anja, thank you.

This plant is not crocus. This is Sternbergia (probably lutea, judging by the yellow flowers, ) . A plant from the family Amaryllidaceae. Count the number of anthers in a flower - there are six, but for crocus there are three. Sternbergia grows in nature in the south of Ukraine too.

Hi Oleg! Your daughter is as beautiful as your flowers!

Hello Anja! I saw a Sternbergia in the nature in Turkey, where it also blooms at this time and until November. I think in my neighborhood, it would have too to live.

HI, Elena, thank you,

I'm sorry, but in your region it's probably not possible. The fact is that in sternbergia after blossoming, leaves in autumn grow quite rapidly. Then winter frosts come, at you they are much stronger, than at us. Through

any tricks I tried to overwinter. But nothing happened, they just died out.

Yes, Oleg, you are right, perhaps I completely forgot about winter))) but as a pot culture for carrying out to the street and subsequent wintering indoors they will do. Again, only as an instance in the collection))

Elena, in a pot I had to raise, too. But the trouble is that the apartment is warm but light is not enough. I kept it in a cool place, but the winter is too long ... nothing happened. (

Hmm .. very sorry for what happened to yours and thanks for the information, I now understand what they need in our conditions.

It grows approximately like a pancratium in Sochi: it is cool in winter, but there are no severe frosts. Here it grows in autumn, winter and spring. With the arrival of the summer - withers.

Those. Sternbergia is a wintergrowing like an amaryllis belladonna. And the same unpromising.

In houston TX I have not been able to grow Nerine, don't know why. stenbergia looks terrific the first year and disappears. On this one I truly think it needs sandy soil. Despite the amended clay I provide, it doesn't want to live here, sniff.

This plant is a Mediterranean climate and close to it. Texas is more in the east of America, so the climate in Texas is similar to some areas of China, and not to the Mediterranean. Maybe this is the reason?

Could be....

Simply I saw in the southern Ukrainian steppe (analogue of the American prairie) southern bulb plants: their bulb sat deep in the soil. Depth 40 cm (8 inches, not less than).

Ideal drainage, the soil in the winter so deeply does not freeze. In addition, these plants sleep, do not grow in winter.

And only in the very south-west, occasionally, in the warmest areas, can be found in the nature Sternbergia.

In Houston and the surrounding area, the minimum winter temperature is 43 to 52 degrees F. This means that in fact there is no winter with frost. That is, the temperature is suitable for Sternbergia. Hence the reason for the failure in another factor. Remains: precipitation in autumn, winter and spring, and soil.

Oleg your source is not quite accurate. We get a good amount of frost and "winter" temps are 35-45ish? We get anywhere from 200-400 chill hours depending on part of town, Houston is big.

Sorry, I do not live in the United States. I took this information from official sources in your country. You certainly know better. So what are the minimum temperatures you have in winter?

Yes, I found the absolute minimum temperature in Houston: 8.96 F, it's -12.8 C, if I was not mistaken. For us it is "not a frost", in our country such frosts happen in November and in May. the frost at us happens up to-30 C (- 22F) and more low.

200 hours this is 9 days, 400 is 18 days. We have winter lasts 70-90 days. Sometimes the snow lies from the beginning of November to the end of April.

Palms grow in Texas, this is an indicator of the subtropical climate. In my region, palms do not grow, they would freeze in winter. In the English language there I did not find the word for temporary, usually denoting nocturnal frosts. We have this in contrast to the word "frost", the word frostbite - "primorozok" (in Ukrainian language) - this is a short-term temperature drop below 0 ° C (32F).

I find it hard to talk generalities about weather as, truth be told, it is everything but general these days. But your numbers were just a tad high. Come visit and you'll see for yourself.

"Come visit and you'll see for yourself."

Are you kidding, sir? )))