Amaryllis

Looks good Clarice, mines just sent up 3 leaves no flower bud as yet.....

this one as never had leaves on it.

A beauty!

that's so cool !!!

There lovely carole....

What wonderful flowers they have.

lovely carol, i havent grown any this year :o)

Gorgeous - love the colours, so unusual

Very unusual colours. The leaves should begin to appear shortly - the flowers usually appear first.

It's a beautiful colour.

Wow, I bought one, but it is very small at present.

Cheers everyone.

A beautiful colour, never grown these plants.

All the others i have had the leaves have come first, cannot see leaves coming on this plant.

Interesting, mine usually send up flower stems first.

Lovely flowers, Clarice! I just had to add this blog to my Favourites!

Don't worry about the leaves they will come when ready. It's important to keep the plant in a light place but not in direct sunlight or the leaves will get burnt. Just make sure the soil always remains damp - not wet or they will rot! Once the leaves get big you can feed it with a weekly fertilizer with lots of Potash, the kind that is used for roses or tomatoes.

I've added a couple of links to this post to do with the care of Amaryllis. I was reading them only a day or two ago & I thought that from my own experience with these bulbs over more than 30 years they were very good.

http://gardening.about.com/od/floweringbulbs/a/Amaryllis.htm

http://houseplants.about.com/od/foliageplants/p/Amaryllis.htm

Hope you find them useful! I hope you get your plant to flower again next year.

Just a couple days ago I discovered yet another stem coming from one of my bulbs (more than 50) this time on the kitchen windowsill. It's in a pot behind the TV so not easy to get to. It's also the bottom pot in a tier 3 pots high! These tiers run the length of the 3m (10ft) long windowsill & most of the time they are 3 pots high, though there are 4 in the centre of the tiers. So it was difficult to spot! It's now about 30cm (12") tall. Now I have one in each of the three windows that have tiers of pots in them! Only one I suspected when I brought them home from the allotment in October. The other two have surprised me! I'll post some photos when the flowers begin to open.

Thanks alot for info..

You're more than welcome, Clarice! :-))

Just yesterday I noticed that the first flower bud to grow since I brought my plants home from the allotment in the middle of October was opening a couple of flowers so I took it into the kitchen & set it on the breakfast bar under the window.

I took a few photos this morning which I'm now going to upload to my photos.

Has yours finished flowering yet? It was a magnificent flower! :-))