In Mississippi a lady that I worked with gave me an amaryllis which I put in the flower bed in front of my house there and within five years there were about 30 of them.
Here in Montana, the plant is more persnickety. My wife grows about twenty or thirty of them indoors, in the atrium/ full length windows part of our house and it seems like you get about a 10 percent attrition rate through the winter. But when they bloom, they always strike me as a cheerful-looking plant. Here are two starting to bloom on the dining room table. I think I gave her both as gifts – I know I gave her the one that has the colors of an apple blossom.
In the background is the lighted nook we built a few years ago for the dining room area of our house. I think I did most of the work of building the “box” and Colleen did most of the finish work – our usual style of working together. Here’s the “box” going into the “hole in the wall.” (This old house has plaster walls and ceilings).
This week, with the cheerfulness of the amaryllis to inspire me, I plan to get lots of writing done.