Amaryllis for February
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- December
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One thing I love about gardening is that it can be so forgiving. Things want to grow, even if you neglect them — especially bulbs.
Usually I put my amaryllis plants outside for the summer and bring them in with geraniums, cannas and dahlias around the 15th of October, depending on the frost forecast.
Amaryllis bulbs like six weeks of dormancy in order to rebloom, so I usually just stick the pot in my dark, unheated basement and forget about them until around Thanksgiving. Then I dump out the top layer of dirt and add water to bring them back to life. Sometimes I actually get them to bloom on Christmas.
This year I really forgot about them. While hunting for a can of paint last weekend, I noticed this sad, dead-looking pot in the corner.
But you know what? I bet it will bloom just fine by February.
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on Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 at 1:20 pm by Bill Cary.
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
