Amaryllis Blooms – So Beautiful From Start to Faded Finish

Every Christmas I’ve always indulged in growing an amaryllis bulb. Sometimes I’ve been lucky with old bulbs sending up new flowers but this year,  all I saw coming up was leaves and more leaves. So, when I spied a lovely plant already in bud in the grocery store, on sale, I swept it up with the groceries and carefully hauled it home.

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And it was so lovely! And quite prolific! All in all, eight blooms in a most luscious, gorgeous scarlet.

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But the show was not over, for a couple of artists, when the blooms began to fade.

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The lines and furls of it’s spent blossoms were quite gorgeous too.

And when they fell off I carefully transferred those beautiful spent blooms to the window sill to keep company with a very old Hydrangea bloom, a collection of Buddha ornaments and some blue and white pottery. Very nice company indeed.

 

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