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The Stubborn Amaryllis

You're supposed to store amaryllis bulbs in the dark after they're finished for the year and then repot them after a few months' rest.  Sometimes mine come back, and sometimes they don't.  Last year's bloomed beautifully.*  Once the leaves had finished, younger son and I boxed it up and put it in a safe place...

... which we couldn't remember.  I was sad, but I bought a new bulb, which I potted in December and which bloomed in February.  

Dear husband found the missing bulb a few weeks ago.  We had put it in the cabinet in the downstairs bathroom.  That makes sense because we also have a number of tall vases in there so it's a flower-y area.  We have a wall cabinet for the things that are used more often so nobody had looked in the under-sink cabinet during the winter.  

We opened the box, and the bulb had put out a very long, very white stem - and bud!  The stem snaked around the small box.  I planted the amaryllis in a deck pot immediately.  The flowers are still opening.

It makes me happy!

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(I tried to prop in up on the trellis, which actually belongs to the mandevilla** behind the amaryllis flowers, but the stubborn amaryllis didn't want to stay there.)

* Thank you to my sister!***

** Thank you to my mother!***

*** They know me well!

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