My office is connected to a bank building, the same bank i worked at for twenty years (1985-2005), so i'm wandering over there/thru there daily - i just tell everyone i'm an alumni! Still know almost everyone there, and i'm familiar with the whole area, including the security guards. One of them works the day shift, and is a buddy of mine. Since he likes to garden, too, we talk plants a lot.
Another friend of his in the building gives him a cool plant for Xmas every year, this year it was this Amaryllis trio of bulbs in a shallow dish full of river rock. Well, i know how Amaryllis grows, it sends up a flower stalk before the leaves appear, and has 4 blooms that last quite some time, after which the leaves come up and help build up the bulb's strength for the next year's blooms. If you're REAL lucky,one bulb may have TWO flower stalks.
Anyway, he placed this tray at the guard station (note the "Please check in with Security" sign in the pic), and the bulbs started to shoot up their flower stalks. All 3 were sort of short, as i remember Amaryllis, but the flowers were nice and large. But, i could see secondary flower stalks appearing on all 3 bulbs, so i thought that was gonna be nice.
Strangely, though, a THIRD flower stalk started to appear on all 3 bulbs! I had never seen THAT before! Each succeeding stalk would grow a few inches taller than the previous one, and my friend finally had to design a support for it (and talked the building's maintenance men into fabricating it!)
At the present time, there are now so many stalks and leaves that we can't be sure, but there may be more flower stalks coming!
I guess that the person who gave him these also bought one for herself, and hers only had one flower stalk apiece! So where THESE bulbs came from is a mystery, but a very interesting one!
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