Beautiful photos of gorgeous flowers. It is always a pleasure to see the pictures from your garden.

Pat, Do you keep your amaryllis from year to year?

Thank you very much, Penny.

Karen Anne,
I used to, but it seemed much easier to get new bulbs. I intended to keep the ones from last year, because they were really different and expensive, but they did not come back.

Pat,

After mine have bloomed, I keep them sitting under a plant light and throw some water on them when I think of it, which is not very often, maybe once every 2-3 weeks. I already have other plants under the lights, so this is no extra trouble.

I fertilize once in spring. I stick those Jobe's fertilizer spikes in, half a spike in each side. I am very careless about fertilizing and determining what type of fertilizer to use for things. I found those spikes a few years ago, and they are so easy, that now I use them left and right for almost everything. Only my tomatoes and roses get appropriate fertilizer.

So far the amaryllis stay green all year round, and about half the time, will rebloom.

This is not the approved method, as I suspect you know, which involves taking them out of the soil, etc. I am too lazy for that. I am not sure where the idea came from that they need rest. I think they are tropical plants...

This reminds me, I received some outside fall planting bulbs (daffodils, etc.) and tossed them in the frig crisper drawer until I could get around to planting them. They are still in there :-) and the ground is frozen, to say the least. I wonder what will happen when I plant them in the spring. That's a benefit of being a lazy gardener, you never know what you find that will work.