Re: An Amaryllis tale

So glad to hear that you and your wife are doing fine. We've all had a bout with some weird cold/flu type thing. Ughh. But we're all doing fine now! Just in time for spring and gardening (I'm trying to think positively....it was 12 degrees this morning).

Jesse Rene' Bell
Claremore, OK
Zone 6

From: romans810@juno.com
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] An Amaryllis tale
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:09:32 -0800

Amaryllis
I wished I knew the answer. I have one I received for CHRISTmas. I put it
outside last summerm kept it on the dry side on the patio. This past
fall, a couple of leaves emerged. I brought it in the house next to the
patio slideing door, east light. In Jan. the leaves died back. I forgot
about it & today I saw a new leaf coming up!!! Whaaaaaaaa?
I picked my first Camellia flower today. Put in a small bowl of water.
C.S. Wilson, pink/white. Warm rain coming down. Frogs are croaking.
My blood tests today were good. Wife is much better after her stint of
bronchitis, etc & all day in the emergency room. She must be better. She
cooked me a great dinner. You all have a gr888 week.

Tony Veca <><
Another Gr888 Day in Paradise !!!!!
Vancouver, WA

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:39:24 -0500 "Kitty Morrissy" <kmrsy@earthlink.net>
writes:
> Maddy,
> I just read through about 50 messages of the last couple of days,
> and it
> doesn't look like anyone responded to your question re number of
> blooms.  I
> had an Amaryllis that had 8 blooms on one stalk the first year.  The
> next
> year it had 2 stalks of 4, then last year it had one stalk of 4, but
> it
> also had a daughter bulb, which I'm assuming drew some of the
> energy.  I
> don't know that there's any guarantee of how it will perform from
> year to
> year, but a good fertilizer program will help.
>
> Kitty
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: <MyTGoldens@aol.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Date: 3/3/2003 6:14:59 AM
> > Subject: [CHAT] An Amaryllis tale
> >
> > I usually have a few Amaryllis bulbs in the house in the Winter,
> and
> > sometimes I have good luck getting them to bloom a second year,
> sometimes
> > not. But this year I got one as a Christmas present that simply
> blew me
> away.
> > It came preplanted in a simple plastic pot and I don't know the
> variety
> name
> > (it was a white one brushed with bright red) but what was so
> amazing to
> me is
> > that the flower stalk (and there was just one) had EIGHT flowers
> on it
> > instead of the usual four! What a sight that was! Has anyone ever
> seen
> this
> > happen before, and does anyone know if it will bloom the same way
> if I
> can
> > get it to bloom again next year, or will it go back to the usual
> 4
> flowers?
> > It also took a lot longer to bloom than the others on the same
> windowsill. In
> > fact, it is just finishing now.
> >
> > "I heard a bird sing in the dark of December;
> > we're closer to Spring than we were in September!" (I forgot who
> wrote
> that;
> > anyone know?)
> >
> > Maddy Mason
> > Hudson Valley, NY zone 5/6 (probably zone 1 THIS Winter! LOL!)
> >
> >
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Tony Veca <><
Another Gr888 Day in Paradise !!!!!
Vancouver, WA

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