Plant Life Imitating Art

Monday, June 22, 2009

I have an amaryllis that I have been nurturing for about 6 months now... yes it is my baby. I water it every other day and fertilize it every other week. This last week I was sitting there cleaning and I looked over at the plant and realized that I had 5 new shoots coming out the top that were huge!!! It's like they literally grow over night! It's as tall as my TV table! When Levi and I left for Chicago last month we let with just the 4 original shoots and came back a week later to 5 more! So any how- it had been sitting inside our apartment since the tornado storm and Tanner, Ruth and Preston were coming over to our place to hang out. I decided to move the plant on to our dining room table to protect it from an exploring little boy! That is when I noticed it!!! My amaryllis was imitating my Picasso piece that is on our wall!!! My amaryllis likes Picasso!!! :) lol... It was really cool! I hope you enjoy!

Isn't that awesome looking!!!! It totally made my night! I know that it's a plant... I'm not crazy.... I know that it can't imitate something else.... it was just a funny thing to see.... something totally random and compeletly unexpected!

I will be taking it to Calloway's Nursery this weekend to see how I prep it for winter so that I can get it to blossom for me. It only blooms once a year at Christmas time. I planted it too late last year so I am hoping I will get it this year!

I haven't looked at it yet this week... I will water it tonight. Looking at it in these pictures I think it's sprouted more times than I remember. It's a fast growing plant that LOVES water!