Talk about 3 days of bliss! OK, no amaryllis but it sure was a "garden web" of the very best kind! My garden pal and I caught 9 or 10 lectures from noted garden Experts, and I did lots of fun shopping and chatted with vendors about everything from plants to chickens to hanging baskets to arbors! I learned about growing tomatoes in my greenhouse. Mm plant haul includes 2 new orchids, (one beautiful blue one and a lovely peach and gold)..not sure what they are but not cymbidiums like my first one. I brought home alstroemerias in many colors and Dieramas in white, lt pink, purple and dark pink, Kentucky Colonel mint, long stemmed fragrant dark purple violets, a special rare hardy fuchia, and unmerous garden tools.

My big problem was carrying everything, since I had slipped on the garage stairs just before coming, seriously spraining my ankle. Dr x-rayed it and gave me one of those step on boots with a rocker sole. SO yeh, I did my whole dream holiday with a very painful sprained ankle! All I can say is, that you have to have a sprained ankle, a garden show makes the best distraction from the pain possible! And I just took the taxi from the hotel to the Covention Center instead of walking 4 blocks uphill through some of our coldest temperatures this winter. I used a cane for the first day then tossed it as too cumbersome.

I think we ought to do our own forum at a garden show for people who want to know how to grow amaryllis, with all the experts on here! We could call it, "what to do with your Holiday Amaryllis"