Back in March I reported that my 5-year experiment in growing Amaryllis from seeds was about to pay off – big time, with eleven bloom stalks coming up from my now sizeable bulb collection. Those 11 stalks on nine bulbs resulted in a whopping 42 flowers, some reaching seven inches across.

Here’s the main collection:

I would have been quite satisfied if I had gotten four or five of them to bloom, and even with two or three flowers per stalk that would have been quite a show, but the way they rewarded my patience this year with so many stalks having at least three, and most having four blooms, far exceeded my wildest hopes.

They’re winding down now, just a handful of blooms left as I write this, but I’m definitely motivated to give them TLC again this summer!