Jersey Lily----Amaryllis belladonna---- Naked Ladies

[Regjersey]

Jersey Lily----Amaryllis belladonna---- Naked Ladies are the same flower, or so I have been told.
I have loads of them planted in my garden and normally they all flower. This year only about 5% have done so...... Any idea why that may be so. I know that we have had a long cold winter and very little rain for four months but I have never had such a bad crop/flowers in the garden even when the weather has been pretty bad.

My garden... Garden Pictures

[Regjersey]

Help please, can anybody help?

[zazen999]

Very difficult as we don't know your plot or what you did last year - some years things just don't do well. They could have died off, have you dug any up to see if the bulbs are still there?

[Regjersey]

Thanks zazen999 for your reply. The soil is made up of 85% shale and 15% sand... I have been growing Jersey Lily bulbs in the garden over the last seventeen years. I have bult up the stock over that time, adding say, every three or four years. I have never used compost, artificial or otherwise and I have only irrigated when necessary. ... Strange, never happened before.... You can see pictures of the garden where the lilies are planted. .... My garden...

http://www.reg-garden.com/garden_pictures.htm

[ngromeril]

They do need a dry summer with some good sunshine to ripen the flowers.
We find that they do best planted in the gravel against a south facing wall. A lot of people in the UK grow them in pots and the judicious use of a greenhouse enables them to get flowers even in a northern location.
Amaryllis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[chris]

How was your winter last year? It was extremely harsh around us - a lot of growers lost many, many plants/bulbs/crops.