Hippeastrum

My son buys me one each Christmas. I always stand them behind the Maranta to hide the stem!

What a lovely gift every year!

That's great, FF! I seem to remember you posted a similar picture last year! What a good idea to hide the flower stems you had! :)

I have 1 Amaryllis with a bud a few inches tall, it won't be more than 3 or 4 weeks before it opens! The other 9 or 10 have not shown any signs of buds just yet. But then it's early days as I didn't start them off until a week ago!

I’ve also started off the one I had last year, but I think it will be a long time before it flowers ( if it does)! It is a quite small bulb, last years. I did feed it though in the summer.

The smaller offshoots do take a few years to bulk up enough so as to flower, FF. You did well in feeding it last summer so just keep up the good work & it will reward you with new flowers & you will have a new bulb! :)

I have at least 2 pots full of smaller bulbs that I must pot up individually this spring. The trouble is that's putting me back on the route to over a 100 bulbs that I had a few years ago! :D :D :D