Amaryllis on balcony table 2009-08-23.jpg

That looks spectacular, balcony!

For some reason the red Amaryllis always seems to grab more attention than the the white & red one or the pure white one. As you can see from my avatar photo last year all three colours were open at the same time. They all live in the same pot as well.

Glad you like it. MD! :)

I like the stripy one too, but I'm a "red fiend" !
Can you get dark red ones?

You may be able to I don't know. There are 100s of cultivars so there's bound to be a deeper red one. There are also double ones. I've not actually seen them in the "flesh", so to speak, but I have seen photos of them & they were on sale here in Marks & Spencers at the beginning of the year. The shop has now been closed.

Thanks Balcony. I'll try growing some anyway, whatever colour I end up with, they're gorgeous plants!!

Still waiting for mine to flower - Madperth you can get dark red ones but I don't know what they're cultivar name is, sorry.

Ta Bernie!