Cleaning the tops of the kitchen cupboards, I found a forgotten Amaryllis we bought last Christmas. Its still in its box etc. Is it too late to plant it or do I chuck it? No experience with them.
My experience of forgotten amaryllis is that they try to escape and they grow triffid-like, a long snakey stem emerging from the gloom covered with cobwebs and crumbs - or that's what we found when we moved the desk of an ex-colleague who'd just left the team in late summer.
She obviously wasn't impressed by her Secret Santa gift - it was still in the box under her desk. Evidently not a gardener
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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You clean the tops of cupboards as often as i do Fishy
More often probably
In the sticks near Peterborough
I dropped myself in it there didn't I nut
You did Fishy
I don't like amaryllis, I'd leave up there
In the sticks near Peterborough
My experience of forgotten amaryllis is that they try to escape and they grow triffid-like, a long snakey stem emerging from the gloom covered with cobwebs and crumbs - or that's what we found when we moved the desk of an ex-colleague who'd just left the team in late summer.
She obviously wasn't impressed by her Secret Santa gift - it was still in the box under her desk. Evidently not a gardener
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
So the general consensus is put it back on the shelf?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Lol nut!! That's a yes then
Plant it up, give it lots of water and you may be pleasantly surprised,
That's what I'd do - it has two chances - if nothing happens by spring put it on the compost.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Its potted. The bulb was very dry indeed but as you both said, its got two choices