By Vladimir Brezina
A month ago, our Amaryllis stirred to life. Day by day, it extended further a slender green flower stalk and eventually unfolded at the end of it three huge red flowers. But their time of glory was brief. When they had shriveled, we cut off the stalk and thought that the show was over for this year.
So we were amazed to find, growing out of the bulb some days later, not just a couple of green leaves but another flower stalk, which has now brought forth another two beautiful flowers—
… just in time for a second response to this week’s Photo Challenge, Color! (The first response was here.)
Vladimir Brezina (RIP) 
Johna Till Johnson
Wind Against Current 
WoW!!!! Beautiful Vladimir!!!
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Thanks!!
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OH WOW! What a stunning photo! I’m so glad you got a “second show”! That’s really, really nice! :)
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Maybe we should hold out for a third show? ;-)
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Sure! Why not? With all the cools things you two have seen lately, it just might happen!
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:-)
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What is there like the intense scarlet of an amaryllis? Not much!
These “bonuses” are stunners.
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They are overwhelming flowers… :-)
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seductive scarlet!
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Quite so!
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The photo is beautiful, but the story makes it even better; you think that something is over and then this happens. Way-hay!
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Totally unexpected… Thanks, Tish—and thanks for following our blog!!
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I wonder how many flowers of this type there are in Amarillo (which with a capital letter is a city in the Texas Panhandle, and with a lower-case letter is the Spanish word for yellow).
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That seems like a question that you are ideally positioned to answer—we expect a full report! ;-)
Reading your comment, I began to wonder whether the name Amaryllis does indeed derive from “yellow”. But no. According to Wikipedia, “The name Amaryllis is taken from a shepherdess in Virgil’s pastoral Eclogues, from the Greek ἀμαρύσσω (amarysso), meaning ‘to sparkle’.”
(However, our Amaryllis—and all others that are sold around here—is actually Hippeastrum.)
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You’re right. The Spanish word amarillo goes back to Latin amarus, which meant bitter, though the connection to yellow hasn’t been definitively explained.
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Loved your first take, and now like your second display of color, too.
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Thank you so much!!
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Love the brilliant red! Beautiful, Vlad.
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Thanks, Gracie!
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Nice, a gift that keeps on giving. :)
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Indeed! :-)
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These grow in your garden? They are beautiful
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Some people do grow them outside, but we grow them indoors, in a pot, year-round.
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Wonderful thing to be able to enjoy all year round. Maybe i should get myself one
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Definitely recommended! Of course, you will only get flowers for a few days once (or twice) a year—the rest of the time there will be just long green leaves…
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That’s sad…I didn’t think of that. Guess it’ll be worth the wait
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Beautiful shot!
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Thank you!!
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Beautiful image and the red color is dazzling. Love the way the stamens look!
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:-) Thanks, Jane!!
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great shot! beautyful Amaryllis!
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Thanks!! :-)
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Gorgeous!
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Thanks!
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I didn’t get one this year, thanks for sharing!
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You are most welcome! They are so overwhelmingly beautiful, the impulse is to invite as many people to see it as possible before it’s over :-)
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I love Amaryllis, and this is such a beautiful photo. :)
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Thanks, Sylvia! :-)
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