Amaryllis White with red veining on living room table 14-01-2012 001

This was one of your seed grown ones?

Lovely Amaryliss Balcony....

Beautiful

Thank you & I'm glad you think they are as beautiful as I do! :-))

@ Meanie: ALL of my Amaryllis are grown from my own seed. The three bulbs I originally bought over ten years ago have since disappeared.

I have three flowering bulbs at this time on our living room table with lots more to come!

Beautiful, I love them all .
What do you do with them when they finish flowering ?

Glad you like them, Valadel! When they finish flowering they will have to go back to the windowsills for now, until the frosts are over 2nd week of May. Then I shall take them down to the allotment once again. They can't stay on the windowsills for long as the leaves get far too long, for the same reason they can't go out on the balcony, there simply isn't the space!

I know the feeling about not having enough space Balcony.
I asked because I had two lovely ones flower last year and after I put them in my garage ( with window) and they never really died down, even now have two long leaves but are not moving at all.

Don't be worried about them, they will start into life when they are good & ready! There natural flowering season, at least here in the UK, is probably April. I say that because practically all my seedlings began to flower during April of their fourth year. I'd done absolutely nothing to try to get them to bloom for Christmas or Easter or whenever. They can be manipulated fairly easily if you want them in flower at any particular time.

I didn't give my bulbs any water from September in the hope that the foliage would dry up & could be removed & the bulbs stored out of their pots. I wanted to keep the windowsills as empty of plants as I could but they had other ideas! In fact only a very few have actually lost all their foliage most of them kept a few leaves but even so I didn't water them until I noticed a bud starting to come out of the neck of the bulb, then, & only then, did I start to water them again. No bud, no water! Now a great many of them are flowering or at least have a bud. :-))

Right thats it then ..... no more water !
Thanks :0)))

What a stunning set of pictures , well done Balcony;0))

I'm so glad you like them, PP! At least they are seen by a wider audience than just my wife & I! :-)) Seems a shame to keep them hidden away on a computer's hard drive!