My Amaricrinums are beginning to bloom. Janine Snapp gave me these bulbs. What a valuable plant for any Southern Garden! It is reaching 100 degrees outside, and that signals their bloom time. Most perennials have retreated to dormancy or are sitting in the flowerbeds looking miserable. This is Amaricrinum's signal to start blooming. The greenery is robust and dark green. They die back when the winter arrives, so plantings have to consider what will take their place when they go dormant.
I think one of their defense mechanisms to guard them from the heat is their interesting habit of extending their bloom stalk straight up in the air in the morning, lowering it in the hottest part of the day so that it is literally laying on the ground, and then raising it back up to its original position in the evening. Fascinating!
Below, I took this picture on Friday evening. I knew some of the buds were just about to open.
Below, Saturday morning they were in full bloom.
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