Re: the Grand Poobah speaks

At 01:49 AM 7/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>I may have missed a beat here, but why don't you just pot them up now?  Or
>are you trying to force bloom for Christmas or something?
>
>Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
>(who just keeps hers in pots all year around, letting them go dormant in
>fall and bloom when they like)
>
>mtalt@clark.net
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Marge, these are hardy amaryllis, sent by Barb Boese.  Barb grows them out
of doors at her home in Dodge City, Kansas.  I think that's about zone 5,
and she does grow them in a sheltered location, and protects them with
mulch in winter, but they zoom up and form very large attractive displays
in spring, I think.  She also sent me some of the bulbs.  She says put them
ON the soil, and they'll plant themselves.  She sent me some last year that
didn't plant themselves, but that was my fault because the soil in the
location I chose was too hard and dry.  I'm keeping it moister this year,
but have a screened cage over the bulbs to ward off squirrels.  The "bulbs"
are not bulbous, they're rather flat, like the offshoots of leeks that have
flowered.  Margaret

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