Forcing amaryllis and muscari bulbs: An At Home journal (Week 1-2)
If you are a gardener, you might love a gift of an amaryllis bulb that can be grown inside over winter to eventually produce impressively large flowers.
Not me. Because I've worked on home and garden-related publications for years. People always think I'd enjoy that sort of gift. They're wrong.
I do not have a green thumb indoors. I can't remember ever being able to keep a houseplant alive. Always too busy and forgetting to water or watering too much.
I'd rather grow my flowers and vegetables outside when there's usually a little help from rain.
But this year something changed. I became intrigued by a photograph of flowering amaryllis bulbs sitting on pebbles in a large vase with no soil involved.