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If you’re looking for a
great way to help brighten your holidays, the try planting amaryllis and
paperwhite bulbs! Today, Let’s take a look at the paperwhites.
Paperwhite bulbs are a
non hardy narcissus bulb that will provide your home not only with wonderful
colorful flowers indoors, but will add a wonderful fragrance as well. And
these bulbs are so easy to grow, they’ll do just fine in gravel and water!
Now, although you can
pot your paperwhites in soil, it’s easiest to simply use a saucer filled
with fine gravel. Take several paperwhite bulbs and gently nestle them into
the gravel. Put them close together, as they will help to support each
other as well as give you a great show of colors.
Add water to your
saucer, so that the water is gently touching the bottom of the bulbs, and
keep it at that level. With paperwhites, once the bulbs touch water, they
respond by starting to grow, so stand back! Place them in a bright cool
area, and in 6-8 weeks you’ll have a saucer full of fragrant flowering
bulbs.
Again, buy several
paperwhite bulbs and plant them on a staggered basis, so that you’ll have
bulbs in flower all winter long. And unlike amaryllis bulbs, these are a
once shot deal, so once they’ve finished flowering, throw them away.
And a couple tips for
growing paperwhites. They can get leggy, so keep them cooler and they
usually stay a bit stockier. Or, add just a splash of gin to your water,
and that also helps to keep them shorter and stockier. No foolin’! |
