Good job, Margaret!
Great advice for beginners and even for some of us who have been growing amaryllis for awhile.
One day several years ago I wondered if I could train amaryllis to bloom for me in the summer. After blooming on the windowsill and once frost no longer threatened, I unpotted them and set them out among perennials and shrubs in some of my garden beds. Since they had already bloomed during the winter, there were no blossoms that first season. When I dug them in the fall, I was amazed at how large and healthy the bulbs looked. What surprised me even more was the number of offsets the bulbs had produced. I cleaned the bulbs, let them dry, and then stored them over winter in our root cellar. The second season I planted the large bulbs out in the beds and potted up all the bulblets. All of the large bulbs bloomed nicely and by fall, the bulblets in the pots had grown rapidly. Some of them even bloomed the next season.
Amaryllis in one of my beds
