What is it about flowering bulbs and our house? If you recall, this winter I wrote about our aberrant horizontal amaryllis. I even took some photos to post.
With this strange flowering bulb, there was a reason. We had put the dormant bulb on a shelf before Christmas and it decided to grow, even though it hadn't been watered. Its problem was the shelf above prevented it from growing upward. Poor thing. But at least there was a rational explanation for its prone position.
Flash forward to March, the months when souls who live in this climate become hungry for green growing things. Especially flowering bulbs. Clem brought home a hyacinth in a pot. Its bud was snug within its green leaves. Fat and full of promise. I set it on my desk, anticipating its flower and its delightful scent.
Upward it grew in preparation for its debut. Then one morning I came into our study and it had assumed the amaryllis position. Its emerging flower stalk curved downward until it was lying horizontally on my desk. There it laid for the duration of its blooming. Rather resembling a dog on his back in the submissive position. After all my sweet words to it, the lovely pink flower stalk had decided to recline.
I think we shan't try another flowering bulb in a pot until next spring. Besides, the daffodils outside are beginning to bring into song.
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