Sorry for delay, I somehow thought I'd get emails when responses were posted but have gotten none so am digging back to my posts to find your ersponses... I'm in Portland Oregon and yes, it does have a citrus-y smell, very crisp and clean (like a lime)?

Congrats Cedarglen! One of my gardening friends here has been terribly sick through her third pregnancy. She's not done much to the garden (and my back is out for the 2nd week in a row) - but I suspect she will cry out to the neighborhood gardeners in a week or two, asking for a few hours of weeding, and mulching the leaves her hubby will rake up. We have a wonderful group of gardeners, and when their house was going to be renovated everyone went with shovels, trucks and pots and dug up the entire garden, potted it up and took it to a guys house for overwintering. Then they brought it back and planted it for her and it has been so beautiful! Do you have any super kind gardener friends you can call on? We do all kinds of this stuff for each other: volunteer for each others garden projects at the school garden or the community or farmers market gardens, clean up and plant our business district, haul mulch or manure etc. It will be tough when you are full of baby, but my (above) girlfriend did some amazing things with her 2nd pregnancy. We were getting the house constantly flooded with water during a heavy rainy season and she come and helped me DIG TRENCHES to carry water away! I couldn't believe it, she was so fantastic.

Hello, Strawberrygirlie Amaryllis are beautiful and fun to grow (with the only negative I know of- lubber hoppers like to eat their leaves..ick) I bet there will be as many suggestions as there are growers on how to grow them. I like to have them in partial sun - have lots of mine under the oak canopy, but with strong morning sun. The plants will appreciate some manure/compost added to soil before planting. And when planting, one should plant so that the "neck" of the bulb sticks out. They seem to overwinter here well, and in the following years, come with more spikes. Here is a few of mine, to motivate you to plant them soon (as to storage, I think you can keep them in dry peat moss for a while, and prevent any water on them so they do not rot) Olya

Thanks for posting these............they are great.