Cherry Nymph Amaryllis - Top Heavy But Flowering
It has been just about a month since the last time I posted photos of our 2019/2020 Winter Amaryllis flowers in bloom . At that time, the largest bulb - the Cherry Nymph was going strong and was putting on a pretty great (red) show. The rest of the bulbs were mostly exhausted. Fast forward to this week and you can see that the Cherry Nymph is STILL going strong - with a set of double blooms. This late into February. Pretty great. You might also note that there's a stick that I stuck into the soil and then used some wire to affix the stem to the stick and keep the bulb from falling over - and the entire pot from flipping over, too. I didn't use the alcohol mixture on this one and it shows: it is long, tall and leggy. And the blooms being SO BIG means that the thin stalk stems can't support the flowers. Lesson learned: focus on the alcohol mix all the way through the growing season. Below you'll see another look at these flowers. I've come to the co