Hippeastrum – photo credit B. Masson
My neighbor sent me a photo of her Amaryllis (Hippeastrum hybrids). Amazing that she gets them to look like this year after year. Her secret? Compost and spring water–wow!
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Eliza Waters 
Reblogged this on Blue Dragon Journal and commented:
Gorgeous!
Thank you for reblogging, Eliza!
So pretty and colorful. Those would cheer any room up no matter the weather.
Thanks, Cindy. She says they have helped cheer her through the winter – I am most impressed with their size and beauty.
Beautiful! And this is going to sound really stupid, but I’ve never once considered putting my compost on the flower gardens. Never. I’ve always put them in the vegetable garden, but never the flowers. Good grief. I now have a spring mission!
Thank you! All plants love compost! Like you, I’ve never thought to plant my houseplants in it. I’m rethinking that one. 😉
Very beautiful.
Here you only get amaryllis in winter.
Thank you, Rabirius. The ones for sale here in autumn will bloom in six weeks or so, in time for Christmas, but if held over the next year will bloom in March/April.
Wow….gorgeous!
I know, right? 🙂
What a beautiful, happy, environment!
They really are very happy! Impressive display. 🙂
I love the colors. They’re beautiful!
Thank you, Correne. The middle ones are a deep rose pink (hard to see in the sun), but all are spectacular!
Nice Eliza! Beautiful image!
Thank you, Reed!
They are beautiful! 😊
Thank you, Irene!
……and of course, this image is at the height of flowering.
The flowers on both plants are beautiful and so kind of your neighbour to email you a photo of them.
So compost and spring water are the tricks to growing them to such perfection.
I always wonder if the kitchen tap water I carry to water my balcony plants is particularly good (or not).
Their water is sweet and pure. My water is hard, which plants do not like, alas. I need to filter mine, I guess!
Gorgeous. I grew them 2 times not sure why I don’t every year I love them now back on my list 🙂 Thanks
Thank you! They are easy to grow right out of the box, but my neighbor has great success having them return every year, which requires heavy feeding after they bloom. I think she has the process down very well!
Awe more for me to learn 🙂
Learning keeps you young! 😉
🙂 64 and no gray I may not be able to say that much longer 🙂
So pretty! Those I grew in pots are done for the season but I’ve transplanted the bulbs in the hope of their naturalizing. I’d just about given up on the last batch I planted in the ground but yesterday I noticed a single bloom stalk, raising my hopes that I may have some success there after all.
Thank you, Kris. It’d be wonderful to be able to grow these outside. This display gives me the idea of how beautiful a grouping of them would be.
Those are gorgeous! They must get lots of light as well, and maybe perfect temperatures? Do you know if they spend the summers outside?
Thanks, Audrey. Yes, she puts them outside in partial shade and gives them benign neglect, quite successfully, I’d say. 🙂
Incredible. I’m impressed!
So was I… they’re so striking!
That’s prolific for inside! I think they are prettier inside. It is so difficult to protect them completely from snails in the garden.
Yes, critters do present a challenge, always!
Its really beautiful!
Thank you, Athira.
Thank your neighbor for the perk me up this Sunday morning. Beautiful.
I’ll pass it on… 🙂
Your neighbor must definitely have a green thumb to produce that beautiful arrangement.
Astonishing! 🙂 (and replicable)
Your neighbor has the touch. My brother does too, he has nearly 30 that bloom every year.
She does… I bet your brother’s are an amazing sight!
Gorgeous!
Thank you, Phao!
I should say so! A perfect burst of beauty for March.
Yes, it is– thanks, Laurie!
Goodness, what a fantastic winter windowsill! 🙂
Yes, I was amazed!
Wow🙂
Agreed!
They are beautiful!
Thanks, Belinda!
A beautiful moment in a rather gloomy day :: … and a bit of a gloom-ridden world too.
Yes, we have to grab the sunshine where we can… ❤
Wow! is right. Amazing. 🙂
Thanks, Robin. I think she has a magic touch!
Compost and spring water sounds like the trick to me, Eliza. These flowers are gorgeous!! No need to say they indeed get the right nutrients to grow as they do. How I wish we had spring water!
Thanks, Amy. So do I! Although they have had issues in drought years, as springs run dry, so I suppose it is a tradeoff to have drilled well water.
I used to put out compost every year when I first began gardening here. Glad to know this handy tip. The flowers are just lovely.
Nothing excites me more than a load of that ‘black gold’ compost. Such good stuff!
Beauties. I wish they had a lovely scent. But they make up for it in sheer awe-inspiring beauty!
Thank you, Bela. These took my breath away!
Wow, those are beautiful flowers. Our Amaryllis blooms at different times through the year but never as profusely as your neighbor’s. Ours is seriously pot bound and in need of repotting. We’ll have to try some compost.
I’m a convert, too!
this bouquet is a splendor
It certainly is!
So pretty!
Thank you, Fi!
Beautiful. My sister in Florida has planted all the amaryllis I have sent her over the years outdoors and they do very well!
Thank you, Denise. I bet they are even more stunning than these when in bloom, and these I found so amazing to see en masse.
They’re lovely!
Beautiful 🤩
Thank you!