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    Getting amaryllis to flower

    Dec 14, 2021 2 minutes

    Q Every year, one of my friends gives me an amaryllis bulb for Christmas, and I do enjoy them flowering on my windowsill. The trouble is that I now have a growing collection of plants with strappy leaves that rarely flower again. Please can you help?

    Bess Talbot, Luton, Bedfordshire

    Amaryllis are known botanically as

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