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Confusingly called Amaryllis (which is another lily type bulb from South Africa, but grown outdoors), the name Hippeastrum, given to it by William Herbert, means “Knight’s-star-lily”. This plant is commonly grown indoors around Christmas time and is from South and Central America.
Earth laughs in flowers 
I’ve never been a fan as house plants, too gaudy for me. having said that this is a bit different, very elegant!
I have to confess to being a lover of the green stuff indoors. Most of mine have died now though!
I love these! I used to have them in all different colours and pamper them, so they’d grow more stalks with more flower heads every year.
I had them back in the ’90s but they seemed to fall out of favour to be replaced by those poinsettias that simply die and get binned 😦
I don’t have one this year but often do. I quite like ‘showy’ 🙂
Happy New Year, Jude! Brian Adams was immense. I ended up watching that instead of Jools.
That’s funny Jo, I ended up watching some of Jools (thought Bryan Adams was a bit corny and his voice hasn’t held out well) but I guess we were both there for the fireworks!! 😀 😀
We (well, Michael!) flipped between the channels. I was probably easily pleased due to the amaretto cocktail 🙂
Ooh, I like the sound of that!
Stunning.
I love these “hippies” and have a lot in my garden, but they will all have finished flowering by the time I get home.
I wonder which ones you grow? The South African ones probably.
Not sure which they are only know they are beautiful.
They are that!
My Mum’s favourite.
They are stunning flowers, I just loved the way these three were positioned.
Spectacular flower!
I thought so too 🙂