The last amaryllis to bloom is Red Peacock.

Lavender and Organic Strawberries. It's difficult to grow things when your stuck in an apartment, but we make do.

MMMM! Strawberries sure sound good right about now, Tralina!

clivia looks great Kathy! Mine are putting out lots of new leaves, I have my fingers crossed that they'll bloom this year

Do you put them in cold for a few months and slow down on water? That has been The big trick here. They don't go into the heated space till they bud up. Makes 'em work hard to make a bud.

This is my late mother's epiphyllum. First bloom.

That's a beauty!

Probably Ackermanii. Ursula will know.

Kathy, my first thought was exactly the same, X Ackermannii, beautiful! Yours is a couple of days ahead of mine.

Love this time of year. Abundance, abundance, abundance!

Here is now the Amorphophallus finally open and happily smelling of rotten meat. But, I expected worse!

Looking down into the spathe -

The dark flowers on the bottom are the female flowers, the white ring above consists of male flowers. There were lots of small black bugs crawling about the female blooms.

And - finally a size comparison. The whole inflorescence measures 36 inches today. And no, I only pretend to hug it.

HA, Ha!! You look so cute hugging your rotting meat plant and smiling away! I can't stop chuckling. Thanks Ursula! (Love the male/female parts pic too!)

I tell you, flowering this thing is well worth it. This is a fun plant!
I kept it over the Winter in the garage, it was dormant then and woke up about a month ago. I am not supposed to water it until the leaf comes up.

Interesting! How often will you water it?

Enough to keep it moist.
I need to move it to a larger pot when it is done blooming. Last Summer I had to flood it in dry weather to keep it hydrated.

Good idea for a bigger pot then.

Huernia thuretii.