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  1. 04-13-2008, 12:35 PM #1
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    Amaryllis Encore

    Early this year I posted a photo of my annual amaryllis (my brother gives me a bulb each year for Christmas.)



    I had kept the bulb from last year. I let it sit in the pot for a while, then cleaned it up and left it in the garage for a couple months. I replanted and.....


    It only has two blooms instead of the four. Perhaps it will need a longer rest for next year!
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  2. 04-13-2008, 01:41 PM #2
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    Wow!!! It's looking huge!!!

    My grandma used to have those when I was a child!

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    Wow, it's beautiful! So you do have green fingers after all! I love Amaryllis and I've kept some bulbs too, but nothing came of it. It needs a colder place to rest and I don't have that.



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    How lovely! I've never grown an amaryllis myself, but I used to buy one occasionally for a great aunt of Alec's. I remember one year the eagerly-awaited huge bud failed to pop open. When she investigated, she found the bud completely empty, just a casing with no flowers in it. Poor thing just had a long stalk and a couple of leaves for her windowsill.
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