Vorlon Whispers

A Little Photo-Flower Blogging

Flower-Blogging and it's not even Friday!

This is our Amaryllis. We acquired it several years ago. It is a single bulb in a pot, which you can see from the photo. After it flowers about this time each year, we put it outside in the summer and let it grow. In the fall, we bring it in and stop watering it.

Then about this time of year again, it will start sending up stalks. As you can see one stalk is already up and flowering. You can also see a second stalk about half way up. The first stalk as four blooms this year; we’ll see what the second stalk has in store.

How well it flowers depends on how nicely we cared for it during the summer. During the summer is when it stores up energy for its next blooming. I have heard they can have as many as three stalks, if you do a good job with it.

One item of care, when it blooms is support. The plant becomes very top-heavy and can easily fall over damaging itself.

I’m sorry this download is so slow. The photo is about 80KB. When I tried to reduce the size, I lost some of the finer detail in the picture. I wish I had a better background to use for this picture.

The bulbs are easily available at your local garden supply about this time of year. I recommend you give it a try.

Posted by Ted at March 2, 2005 6:44 PM