Sunday, March 11, 2012
Time to talk about my plants
As some of you may know, I am kinda into houseplants. Who knew? Am I right? Kinda weird for me but whatever, I seem to be okay at it. Well this is the second year I have had this amaryllis and I really didn't think that I could get it to bloom. Everything I've heard says its hard to get them to bloom more than every other year, so I wasn't getting my hopes up. Well folks, it bloomed, and did it ever bloom. I got 4 huge flowers out of it this year, so here is what it looks like.
Do any of you have any experience with this plant? I have a hard time getting the hugely long leaves not to break off. Got any ideas as to how to keep this from happening? I've just been propping them up with wire hangers but I'm not sure that's gonna keep them up this year, they are so long!!!
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Houseplants? Hahaha... good luck with that. I kill EVERYTHING that I try to grow.
Try putting some wooden dowels(sp) in them to help hold the leaves. Good Luck...love ya
Those flowers are beautiful. I tried to grow an amaryllis last year and it did not bloom. I love the color.
I stole one from Emilee's garbage when we moved and it bloomed that christmas, but not since. And I have the same issues with the leaves. I can get like 5 leaves going, then they all break and die. I think you did great, I would just keep doing that!
Use a dowel or special stick you can get at Lowe's or Home Depot-you then can tie the stem with a piece of twine or something similar.
Girl, I am impressed-most of us just throw them away after they have bloomed once!!!
This is from your FAVORITE AUNT!!
You definitely have a green thumb and I don't know if this matters but I think one of the best things for plants is to put them someplace where they don't get bumped and moved a lot...or AT ALL. I used to move mine around a lot (I know that won't surprise you) and I've noticed since I've left them alone they've done lots better.
Now....maybe you could get my orchards to bloom again?
I thought that this was my plant? and yes it it beautiful!
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