Anticipating beauty

[billeyler]

I've always been fascinated with the amaryllis and its ability to spring from a lumpy ball-bulb into a fully flowering beauty in a month or so.

I had an amaryllis that lasted about four years, the last year shooting forth with four large stems and flowers. It finally bit the dust last year.

This one, I bought in a post-Christmas sale for $2.50. It took a while for it get going. I think the first bit of green shoot started about a month ago. It'll be blooming in a few days.



It's not that I have a green thumb. It's only when I water appropriately that my houseplants seem to thrive.

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[bearhedded.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

I've never been able to get them to bloom a second time..... just leaves!

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

I put the spent bulb in the garage for the winter so it can have suitable freezes. That seemed to work for the last one! I don't know if it gets cold enough where you are for that, but maybe putting it in a bag in your freezer for a few weeks would work.

[bearhedded.livejournal.com]

I remember a neighbor finding one in bud in her storage shed, that she'd put there and forgotten!