Q: I appreciate your podcast and listen to it regularly. Many years ago, I listened to a gardening program in the Twin Cities where they were talking about planting amaryllis in the spring outdoors and then digging, drying and overwintering them. Since then, I’ve planted them in our landscape each spring, and their blooms are quite popular in the neighborhood, and I receive many compliments on them. They are prolific multipliers, and I dug over 80 bulbs this fall. – Mike L.

A: Wow! Count the day lost you don’t learn something new, and thanks to you, Mike, I’ve learned how beautiful an outdoor planting of amaryllis can be.

Amaryllis bulbs, which produce huge, trumpet-shaped flowers of red, pink, white or two-tone, are easy to come by this time of year, as they’re sold at many garden cen

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