Tuesday, December 09, 2014

No Poinsettia!

Some people consider poinsettias the official flower of the holiday season. I say, “Move over, poinsettia, and make way for amaryllis!”



I decided to downsize the holidays this year and am eliminating lots of decorations and frills.  Difficult to do, though.  I recently read an article in the Minneapolis Tribune that promoted using an amaryllis plant instead of poinsettias so I picked up one during a shopping trip to try it out. I love the plant as its buds are unfolding! It's really quite beautiful and after I wrap the pot in decorative paper  (or repot it in a glass container,  surrounded the blooms with pebbles) it will be a worthy substitute for the traditional poinsettia, which will eventually wilt and fade.  According to the article, I can keep it from year to year.

19 comments:

  1. i hope you can keep it going!

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  2. Beautiful! Much prettier than the poinsettias, I think.

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  3. I like them both. Both plants remind me symbolize the season these days. We seem to always get an amaryllis as a gift. Love to see them work til summer.

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  4. I do believe we had some of these growing in our yard/garden at our first Ocala house. They are very beautiful plants. We also had a lot of poinsettias growing in our yard! Not at our new place, though.

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  5. In general there's more variety with amaryllis, too...They can be super beautiful.
    It's wonderful to watch them bloom; they don't waste any time.

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  6. It is beautiful! I have had dozens of them in my flower beds for years and I love it when they bloom in the spring. Some of them are at least 30 years old, given to me by my grandfather from his yard.

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  7. I LOVE them! I have had them before and they never fail to dazzle.

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  8. Nice but I still love the poinsettias. I will miss decorating inside the house this year. It was all I could do to put out Snoopy this year.

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  9. My preference as well, especially since local shops have begun gluing glitter to the poinsettias... and occasionally spraying them with other colours.

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  10. Ooo Kate ... you didn't split your infinitive!

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  11. I like both plants, hope your amaryllis will survive year after year. They are really beautiful.
    When I lived down in Mississippi, I had a least one poinsettia that made it through two Christmases.

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  12. I like both. For me as a child, it was always poinsettias, though.

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  13. Yes the amaryllis plant is a hit here too, don't know what a poinsettia is, but I like your new plant.

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  14. I'm going to have to look for that plant. Its blooms are pretty.

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  15. I agree that the amaryllis is a great Christmas plant! I do have a poinsettia this year though. It was a gift.

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  16. I love amaryllis too!
    I see that your comment are free of "word verification". I don't know how to fix my settings, because I don't like "word verification". Do you have any clue? Thanks.

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  17. Great idea. I love the spectacular blooms on this plant.

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  18. Oh no Kate, your gorgeous Amaryllis is putting my poinsettia in the shade :)

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