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From Dad with love
Remember those giant amaryllis bulbs from my dad that the TSA thought were bombs in my carry-on? We’ve got two flowers open on top with two to go and four open on bottom on this one.
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Merry Christmas!
An amaryllis my dad gave me for Christmas, celebrating the first day of spring. Thank you, Dad, it’s gorgeous!
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Colors of spring
Finished last night at bedtime and hung to dry fast before calling it a night, grateful I got it done in time: Laura’s cowl. Delivered on her last day at Green Planet Yarns. That amaryllis from last...
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Can I hear you now?
A few more days and the whole cherry tree should look like this and more. For my dad: an Apple Blossom amaryllis started opening today. The Frost peach has been properly thinned, and so has hours of...
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Each day a blessing
My niece Emily has been in the ICU: she caught the flu, got worse, started barfing and her (tween? Tell me he’s not a teenager yet?) son called my sister and said, Grammy, Mom needs you. My sister went...
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Unless another one happens to pop up later
This seems to be the last one for the season: a Red Lion amaryllis, from a bulb Dad gave me several years ago that has now split into three that need to be repotted and given their own spaces. But...
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My dad mailed me amaryllis bulbs every December, and sent me home with six monster bulbs a year ago November when we were there celebrating my parents’ anniversary. It would be his last time. The first...
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Lockdown day 60
These turned towards the sun faster than I noticed and so some of the flower stalks from Dad’s bulbs had to be rescued and brought inside. In a vase inherited from my mother-in-law. My folks and my...
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Bloom
Finally got the pictures to come through! The amaryllises suddenly all decided at once that it was spring. Today there were more. The Anya seedling from 2020 with the late one that sprouted not quite...
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