Flower for the Day Amaryllis 4-19-17

My amaryllis is blooming later each year. It is quite mature (the bulb is over thirty years). The size of the blooms remains the same. Caring for it is almost seamless so I continue to put it

in the dark in the winter and bring it out and start watering it in February and it summers outside.

                                                    I AM AN AMARYLLIS

Hippeastrum is my proper Latin name 

I am so spectacular I simply put others to shame 

From a large bulb my green shoots will grow 

I dwarf the other plants I love to be on show 

With my elevated position I look down on other plants 

They are tiny in comparison and look like little ants 

When my tip emerges it contains my superior flower head 

My blooms can live for three weeks yet other flowers are dead 

I am the king of flowers 

I can produce three flower stem 

My trumpets are enormous, people stand and gaze at them 

I have no scent for you to smell when I am flowering 

The intensity of my blooms would make it overpowering 

Once I've finished blooming I deserve a two-month rest 

Then I will re-flower for you and show the world I am the best! 

05~04~15 

My chosen flower  - Amaryllis meaning pride 

Contest:- Picture yourself as a flower – Andrea Dietrich