Amaryllis - 'Red Velvet' Growing Kit
Everything you need to grow huge flamboyant blooms.
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Just £5.99
Key Features
Perfect In Pots
Plant In Sunshine
Protect From Frost
Easy To Grow
Width: 25cm
Height: 60cm
Height: 60cm
- Fabulous, rich crimson flowers for an exotic touch in the middle of winter
- A wonderful gift, and so exciting to grow – and anyone can do it
- Buy them for family and friends and see who’s grows the biggest, with the most flowers!
- Bursts into flower around 8 weeks after planting, with up to 4 blooms on each stem
- Supplied in a gift box including a large, size 26/28cm bulb, compost and pot
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Description
Incredibly popular as winter gifts, Amaryllis, also known as Hippeastrum, are spectacular flowering bulbs that are a real treat to grow, giving you stunning, exotic flowers in the middle of winter!
As the flower stems begin to emerge from the centre of the leaves, excitement and anticipation grows as you start to imagine how tall they'll get, and how many flowers too. Amaryllis often produce more than one flower stem, with each one carrying up to four huge, trumpet-shaped flowers, and as the name suggests, the blooms of ‘Red Velvet’ are the most fabulous, luxurious crimson colour.
Our indoor bulb kit makes a wonderful gift, or you could just treat yourself. It’s always fun to grow one of your own and give another as a present and then compete for the tallest plant with the most flowers!
Presented in an attractive gift box, it contains everything you need including a pot, compost and a large bulb. All you need to do is plant it around eight weeks before you’d like it to flower, with the top third of the bulb above the compost, always keeping it moist. Your Amaryllis bulb is supplied sized 26/28cm, and will grow up to 60cm tall.
Top Tips
- Turn your Amaryllis regularly to keep the stems straight and stop them bending towards the light.
Care Information
- Plant your Amaryllis with the top third of the bulb above the compost surface.
- Water regularly, keeping the compost moist.
- Grow in a bright, warm spot, ideally above 20°C (68°F).
- Feed regularly to encourage larger flowers, tomato food is perfect!
Keep your Amaryllis for the next year!
- After flowering, cut the stems down to a few centimetres above the bulb, but leave the leaves in place.
- Continue to water and feed throughout the year until autumn, then move the plant to a dark place and stop
- watering, letting the leaves die off.
- In November, bring you Amaryllis back into the light and begin watering and feeding again.
- New leaves and flower stems will grow, and as the bulb has been well fed, it should flower even better than the previous year.
Delivery Information
Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.
Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.
We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.
Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.
Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.
Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.
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