These were the very first blooms after the bulb arrived in Vienna from Spain. The Story one year before is below the update.
Update : the year after
Below, is an update of this amazing plant, a year after I got it from my spanish friend( updated today June 3, 2013). In the meantime, it has now about 6 tiny siblings and I´m cultivating them...
above & below, the updated pics, 1 year after... 2013
One year after , this stalk reached around 80 cm in height (2013).
THE STORY
It came all the way from Southern Spain, this amazing amaryllis...
A spanish friend loves gardening and Amaryllis is one of his passions.
He grows , propagates and sells some of them. I guess, I was lucky to have gotten
the biggest bulb he had.
The Story of this amazing plant began at a friend´s house.
When I got it, it was sprouting and developing its top, so I had to be careful not to damage the stems and the flower because I want to bring it home after the holiday.
To be able to transport it to Vienna, I wrapped it like a mummy with full of wet sponge and old newspaper, placed it in a freezer bag and add as part of my luggage for check-in.....
and it did survive the flight!
The day after, I set it in a pot and it started blooming amazingly!!!
Later, after 2 weeks of aaaahhhs & ooooohs, we finally cut the stem as the flowers dried off...
But, a miracle happened, there was new growth of stems again ,
and just like the first round, each stem ( there were 2) had 5 or 6 flowers....
Super, wasn´t it?
If you´ll have a look at the above photo, the 1st stem had at least 5-6 flowers and the
2nd stem, have had also the same.
A close-up Photo of the center of amaryllis.
I have really no idea how to grow amaryllis, this is my first and I think I was lucky
to have picked the biggest bulb...
Five months after, the original bulb has gotten 5 newbies which I now propagate,
and in a year or two, it will start blooming ( well, at least I hope so!).
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Thank you for reading my blog today and wish you were inspired by todays´s posting.
Wishing you all a pleasant morning/evening wherever you are in your part of the world.
Til Next,
Mercy
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