Amaryllis belladonna
Mary Sue Ittner (Thu, 10 Oct 2019 08:57:02 PDT)

Our Mendocino coast has massive flowers every year in places where they
get no summer rainfall and no watering either. The best flowering is
almost always where they are growing in full sun.

I have them planted all over my garden (from earlier times before I
realized that my garden was too shady) and the ones that flower the most
reliably are ones that get the most light. Ones in the shade have never
flowered. We had better rainfall this past spring than we have had in a
number of years and there were a few that flowered this year that hadn't
in a long time, but others that flowered last year that did not flower
this year. A friend was thrilled when hers flowered this year after
skipping a few years and when I asked, I learned that a neighbor had cut
down a tree so the bulbs were now getting much more light.

Mary Sue

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