CONTEST: Who can first get a one-hundred-year-old amaryllis?
My girlfriend Bente's mother on Greenland has one that is 37 years old and better than when it was young.
I think my oldest ones are from 1997, so I won't win the contest.
If you are old and have amaryllis, you can will them to a child and explain the contest.
QUESTION: Can an amaryllis that sprouted during hibernation and then dried up, get any leaves this time around? Flower?
Here is how my original eight are doing:
nov. 1:
1. 4 good leaves
2. nothing so far
nov. 8:
1. side bulb and start of leaf
2. leaf just starting
nov. 15:
1. nothing
2. nothing
nov. 22:
1. leaf shoots shaky but okay
2. leaf shoots dead
Next Monday I get out 2 of Bargyla's amaryllis (just wanting to see if they are ready to flower). Then a bit later my daughter's 2.
My bathroom is the funniest thing you ever saw! Even I laugh about it.
Carol
