I just bought an Amaryllis growing kit for a friend. I want to mail it to her.
However, it already has a stalk. Is it okay to ship it like this or can/should I cut the stalk off?
Thank you in advance!

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but keep in mind that shipping live plants at this time of year can be risky because of the chance of freezing in the back of a truck as it travels across the country!

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Or on their porch when the drivers just leave it there until the recipient notices they got a package...
Although, maybe if you put enough of those packing peanuts in, it may insulate it just a bit, never thought about that????? ?????
But probably not enough, if it's heading towards a colder growing zone????
My two cents worth??

Weezie

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Bonnie,
Go up to Bill's post, and click on the
red lettering with the words,
the gardenhelper.com on it.....
Towards the end there's some tips to what
to do to them after they're done flowering....

Kinda along the lines of a dahlia or gladiola bulb....

Weezie

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With being in a different growing zone than I am,
do you leave your dahlia's and glad's in the ground? or pull them up and store them???

That's what we would do up here is store them for the glad's, after they flower, clip the stems off, and let the stalk die back a bit, putting it's energy back into the bulb.
Then in the spring, put them back in some dirt and start to water again...
The dahlia's we have to let the frost hit them once and then pull them out of the ground and store them..

Weezie

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The only thing that stays ever green here in WNY is the EVERGREENS, under several feet of snow
by the end of winter...

Although, I do have one plant, the is so wierd.
I even thought I'd killed it somehow as to where I put it and wouldn't make it thru the winter..

My neighbor gave me some Arum italicum ...*they look something like a Jack~in~the~pulpit, the big leaves, the hooded flower part and big seeds on one stalk that turn colors...

Well, I planted it next to my house which is a different zone than all the rest of my gardening, everything dies back up here but I can over winter a dahlia outside, but it's by the South side of my house, raised bed, mulched HEAVILY, it's got a cement walkway by it and a furnace and hot water tank with a stone basement wall..
Keeps it just enough alive to over winter and pansy's and tulips have a hard time surviving, actually pansy's won't, because it's too hot there..
Anyhow, I planted the ARUM there and they are bulbs like, and the leaves started coming up in the Fall time, and I thought for sure, because it was so warm there, I'd screwed up and they were thinking it's spring... the leaves were this awesome green color and it was snowing and frosting and cold and I was feeling their pain...
the leaves got tattered and soon, the snow was so high, I couldn't see it anymore...*we shovel snow where they're kept, cause it's the only place to throw it..
Anyhow, come spring, those darn leaves were pokin' their darn fool leaves out of the snow and I was like, oh, the snow insultated them but now the January thaws and winds are going to get them...
Well, come spring they were really tattered and torn looking and a flower stalk and hood came up like the j~i~t~p did, and then a somer really cold nights and days came over and I thought it that nothing happened to it, cause the hood collasped and nothing flowered...

Again, thought it would pass out from all it's abuse..
well that flower stalk/hood thing started producing a green berry like and then it started to turn orange in the summer time, I kept thinkin' I had it in the wrong place because it shouldn't be there. *I thought it was too hot for it and that's why it turned orange.

But come to find out, that's the nature of the plant here, it works just fine and it's done that for about 5 or 6 years now....

Weezie

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