Update on our Christmas Amaryllis
About 10 days before Christmas, our amaryllis looked like this . But on Christmas day? It had bloomed! All four ways. It was a spectacular flower and as luck would have it, the final of the four buds opened on Christmas day. That's a shot of the white/red beauty above. There were four of these double petal stars for us to enjoy for a few weeks. You'll recall that this is the bulb that we picked up at Wannemakers and it was far outperforming the cheap one from Menards . I'm really so pleased with how this - the $14 version one - worked out for us. The Menards one ($3 one!), is still chugging along, but it is all green shoots and no stem so far. Next year, the Babe already has plans to get after these things at scale. And by 'scale', we're talking about 4 or 5 of them. She's thinking that in addition to us trying a couple different ones, we can work on a project together and be in a position of giftin...