Good morning again Honeybee, I guess 10:00am on Saturday morning is too late to get in on this trade. Darn it. Oh well, I guess I'll have to look forward to hearing back from you on the last note. Xtal

Oh thank you for your compliment and your offer, Amanda. Amarillid plants are my favorite subjects and my heart-pulse (sorry for inadequate terminology *lol*) I shall write you privately. so - back to the topic in spe *g* I found it to be conspicuous and characteristc of amaryllid plants (and, more generally - MANY bulbous plants, respectively) - that these can be regarded as herd animals *ROFL* (but by all means with a serious thought) and being most attractive when displayed in mass plantings. These amaryllogene white powder tassels do not make any exception to that rule. They are simply wonderfull in a dense mass planting and when blooming simultaneusly, as can instantly concluded from several of the thumbnail images in the link I gave above. Hans-Werner

Russ, Most all doubles are sterile. But it is quite common to find pollen along the edge of some of the petals, check all of your flowers, you may find some. And some doubles like Dancing Queen, and many others, do have filaments with pollen on misshapen filaments.I think it's called petaloid stamens when they are sort of fused to the side of the petals. Doubles are almost always female sterile. Your flower is very clean and beautiful, some people think the distorted reproductive parts make the flower look messy. Check all your flowers and you may luck out and find a dab of pollen that you can manually put on your red flower. Good Luck, and would your double be 'Promise'?? I'm sure others on this forum would be better at explaining it in more technical terms and correct my terminology which may or may not be correct, but you get the gist. Donna

Are you buying it for the container, or for the bulb? That looks like the Smith and Hawken kit from Target. I bought one this January when they were 90% off, mainly because I wanted the ceramic cachepot. If what you really want is a nice, fat bulb that is true to label and will give you more than one stem of flowers, then look for a source that sells bare bulbs and buy the pot separately. Last year's bulbs were loose in the pots and on the small side, typical for box kits. I was able to select one that had not bloomed. I got a mislabeled bulb that only put up one scape, but I consider the bulb a free bonus at the price I paid. With the bulb in an opaque sealed bag, at full price, I would pass. There could be a nasty surprise in there. If you do buy one, you will need a second pot with drain holes to plant the bulb in. Use the ceramic pot as a saucer and empty it after every watering.