Re: "hardy amaryllis"
When we bought this house about 20 years ago, there was a garden bed of
sorts in the far back end of the yard with a few odds and ends planted
in it--one of which was a patch of strappy leaves which came up every
spring and never bloomed. After 2 or 3 years of this I assumed it was a
patch of overcrowded daffodils, so I dug them up and found a bunch of
about 15 or more juicy white bulbs which didn't really look like daffs.
I planted about 7 of the biggest around the yard and the small ones I
just threw away up into the woods ( a small wooded drumlin behind my
backyard).
Then late that summer, up came the fragrant lily blooms where I had
purposely planted them (and I could identify them); and the following
year and every year since, even the throwaways in the woods have bloomed
- even in the shade. How they planted themselves I'll never
know--unless they just got buried in the falling leaves??? I took this
as a lesson on the importance of dividing ---and on the tenacity of
nature!
--
Barb Perna
Southcental WI, Zone 4
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