{"id":3234,"date":"2014-01-21T12:44:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T19:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:43:09","slug":"amaryllis-blooms-so-beautiful-from-start-to-faded-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/amaryllis-blooms-so-beautiful-from-start-to-faded-finish","title":{"rendered":"Amaryllis Blooms – So Beautiful From Start to Faded Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every Christmas I\u2019ve always indulged in growing an amaryllis bulb. Sometimes I\u2019ve been lucky with old bulbs sending up new flowers but this year, \u00a0all 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\u00a0hauled it home.<\/p>\n

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And it was so lovely! And quite prolific! All in all, eight blooms in a most luscious, gorgeous scarlet.<\/p>\n

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But the show was not over, for a couple of artists, when the blooms began to fade.<\/p>\n

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The lines and furls of it\u2019s spent blossoms were quite gorgeous too.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Every Christmas I\u2019ve always indulged in growing an amaryllis bulb. Sometimes I\u2019ve been lucky with old bulbs sending up new flowers but this year, \u00a0all 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 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[680,844,1],"tags":[885,886,887],"class_list":["post-3234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-images","category-color-color","category-musings","tag-amaryllis-blooms","tag-amaryllis-blooms-faded","tag-faded-beauty-in-a-bloom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4023,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions\/4023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}