Holiday Bulbs for the Coming Winter Doldrums

dry season of the bulb's native habitat. Often the leaves will completely dry up and can be removed. Sometimes they don't. Don't worry about it. this year I have some each way. If you want to time the bulb for Christmas, bring it in and dry it off September 1 and resume watering again on November 1. I like to have mine bloom in January, so I bring mine in about mid September and will resume watering at the end of November. If the bulb has fattened perceptibly you may need to repot it, otherwise it need be done only every second or third year. The pot should always be about 1 inch larger in diameter than the bulb. When the bulb forms offsets (I like to call them 'pups'), they can be left on the mother bulb to produce more leaves for the display and eventually to add flowers too, or they can be detached at repotting time and given their own pot. It will take them several years to begin to bloom. I aspire to someday have a container about the size of a peck basket filled with a clump of my Scarlet Baby dwarf amaryllis. You can do it too! Here is McClure and Zimmerman's amaryllis page.

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