Mid-Atlantic Gardening: AMARYLESS COULD BE #2 or #3 CHRISTMAS FLOWER, 1 by docgipe

docgipe wrote:
They show up in the big box stores of all types as huge bulbs with sickening beautiful advertising. I found this one at a grocery store selling for $6.99. I also saw it in a catalog for $24.99. Anyone can grow one of these and hold it over for many years of bloom. One only needs to pot it with twenty percent of the bulb above ground. Add water and it blooms. Set it outside after last frost. About the first of May give it a tablespoon full of Root Tone when potting and again about the first of June. Water to keep the leaves happy. August cut off leaves, take inside, box it or find a dark basement room and then forget it until September. Sometime in the last half of September bring it back to a sunny window. Once again just add water. Repeat the same as many years as you wish. When pups (new bulbs) form cut them off and grow them too. Easy enough!