By Vladimir Brezina
We didn’t have any great expectations for our Amaryllis this year. We didn’t treat it right. We didn’t treat it the way the books said to make it flower.
Yet a week ago, once again, it began to extend its long stalk. The stalk looked slender and fragile at first, and so we doubted still that the flower would amount to much.
But now at the end of the stalk, bending under the weight, Amaryllis has unfolded, all at once, three flowers, as if to assure us of its continued favor—
... has kayaked the waters around New York for over a decade in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He comes originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and has lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He is a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.
Unbelievably gorgeous!
:-)
Favoured indeed! Aren’t they just the most magnificent flowers – always make me think of spring – and next year I’ll be able to watch them flowering in my garden – I’m looking forward to that :)
It must be amazing to have a whole collection of them… :-)
I dod once – used to pick vases full! I don’t suppose I’ll ever have such abundance again, but a clump would be nice :)
it’s lovely and oh so red!!!! z
The richness of the red always amazes me. It’s hard to capture adequately in a photo…
it’s equally hard to capture with paint. z
When we bought our house, there were two orchids hanging in the pool area. They looked half dead so I planted them outside and forgot about them. About a year later, I was looking around my garden and noticed the plants were thriving and the orchids were breathtaking! I couldn’t believe my luck, so I just left them on their own. I got three more years of beautiful blooms before they passed on. Ya never know!
Sometimes it’s best just to leave them alone to do their thing… :-)
The Amaryllis looks beautiful. You are lucky to have some place to grow flowers in the city. Is that you in the background behind the camera?
No place outside—this is all indoors. And that is indeed me behind the camera…
I guess you re-wrote the book :)
I think we just got lucky… :-)
Is that you in the background :-)
Yes indeed… :-)
I love that photo. We were looking at them at night and I asked Vlad to go with one of the photos that had him in the background (there were several)…
Third, a charm! Gorgeous!
Third time lucky… :-)
Hats off for getting it to rebloom!
Several years in a row now… but we didn’t do anything special… :-)
I should send you mine. I get new leaves and no flowers on my old ones and am thinking about tossing them in the compost pile.
Wow! Beautiful focus! Love that vibrant red!
Thanks!! :-)
We have some Amaryllis growing along the sidewalk outside our door here in southern Florida. It amazes me that they grow without any care as I am used to working hard to get tropical flowers to grow in the north. I have been meaning to take a photo for a post – maybe tomorrow. Congratulations on having a beautiful flower in spite of you. :) Oh, the power of nature.
Everything grows wonderfully in Florida—we remark on that every time we go there, and even more of course on the birds! Yes, do post photos :-)
My parents used to tend lots if amaryllis in the home where they lived. Hanks for the memory.
Glad to have brought back the memory…. :-)
It’s very beautiful. It must know how much you love and appreciate its beauty for it to come back each year ;-)
I think that must be the explanation ;-)
hahaha … I think you will have to stick to kayaking. It would have been pretty had it bloomed. hahaha It is hilarious to look at. I’m so sorry for laughing so much but thanks for the Sunday morning funny.
Well, now, several days later, it’s all over—and we’ll stick to kayaking for another year… :-)
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