Merry Christmas Lena!!
K

A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too Leena!!

Donna

Beautiful photos Lena! and a Merry Christmas to you too.

-J

Kristi, Donna, J, thank you!! :D

Today it happened, H. papilio opened it's flowers, both of them. It is truly unique in every way.

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The flowers aren't that big but the shape and coloring are fascinating. The size might still improve in years to come. - Collected pollen from it already but won't have high hopes of success... Going to give it a go though, for sure! :D

Merry Christmas...from Vietnam.

Xuan

What wonderful pics of some beautiful blooms to bring some warmth to a cold zone 3 in Finland!! Merry Christmas Eve :o) Dan

Xuan, Dan, thank you so much!
Yes, these flowers give so much joy, and specially now when there's a lot of snow and it's freezing outside.

Am I just imagining or does my papilio have more prominent whitish marks in the middle than usual? Is this 'Papilio Improved'? If it is, is it a good thing or a bad thing? I believe it's bad; how can you improve anything so special as a species.

Happy Holidays Lena!

Cheers, Blanca

Blanca thank you so much!

As Dan stated above, the hippeastrums warm the heart with their vibrant colors and it's really appreciated at the moment when colors are otherwise missing from the world. Just now it is black and gray with shades of brown against the whiteness of snow.

Here are a couple of photos taken in our yard this Christmas Day morning -

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Lena, it sure LOOKS like Christmas at your home. It's going to be 75*F and rainy here in Spring, TX.
Merry Christmas
Kristi

Hi Kristi and thanks! :D
In a couple of days it might turn into rain over here too. In that case with all this snow melting we might need a boat instead of a car...

We've lucked out so far this year, we are near enough to the coast so that we usually get rain just a little bit warmer..thank goodness! Lovely to enjoy the snow in someone else's yard!! Very pretty! I hope you feed the birds!!

Donna

Lena,

Those are amazing photos! What a background to set the colors of the hippeastrum against - must make their colors even more striking.

Thanks for sharing - I love that we are all from so many different places and through this wonderful forum can share with each other. -J

Donna, J, hi and thanks! :D

Well, the snow is melting right now and the roads are very slippery at the moment...

J, thanks! I've needed to find a way to photograph inside the house during these winter months. My favourite spot would be in one of the upstairs rooms but it's not available at the moment, it's under construction so to speak, for how long no one knows, not even hubby...
The plants are simply placed against a white wall, but the light has to be good, otherwise it won't work, at least not for me.