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Hey, get to Target ASAP! they have Amaryllis in pretty pots ( Smith and Hawken) for $7!

That is funny. They're $28 on the S&H site. Before shipping.

Whatever the market will bear, I guess.

I once saw GIANT amaryllis at the Flower Show in New York brought there by Dutch Gardens. I suppose amaryllis like that would be worth the catalog price tag--but I don't trust a catalog to ship anything that amazing. Please correct me if I'm wrong, Elizabeth.

I love amaryllis and must confess, I buy mine at Lowe's. They're usually about $4 each. Kind of puny, but I put a couple to a pot and they never fail to cheer me up in mid-winter.

Oh, goodness, I have 2 from Home Depot--they were like $6. They come up every year for me and I do nothing--no dormancy. I have 2 others from van Engelens. I think.

I just treat em like houseplants. Outside in the summer.

I would like to have the more exotic ones, but I already am maintaining 4. All red--so boring. How did that happen.

The one above is from the show at our Botanical Gardens last year.

I was thinking on this last night, Eliz. As I too always guffaw when I receive certain overpriced catalogs. But then I thought it is not just these bulbs - it is the $$ restaurant salad entree you could make better at home; the pricey new bestseller you can borrow free from the local libary; the freshly starched shirt from the dry cleaners that you could easily iron yourself; etc. There are lots of things people way overpay for IMHO.
So why do people pay for these and not DIY? I think a combo of ignorance, time-crunch, laziness, pride (who me, step foot in a public library?), and just looking for convenience - they want to dial 800 # or go online and it is done - no need to buy dirt, a pot, AND a bulb and dirty your hands then have to package it up nicely and drag it to the post office. Is that worth $30+ extra? Not for me, but obviously for some folks it is.

I can't iron like the drycleaners. My idea of total indulgance would be to have all my ironing done by someone else. I have threatened to stand in the middle of the local big box bookstore with a bullhorn and command people to go to the public library. I think public libraries could increase their traffic if they would have coffee shops(though eating and drinking while reading a library book was a major sin when I was growing up) and Sunday hours.

Tibs, we have a fantastic public library in Saratoga Springs that my family and I use constantly. The keys are, as you say, a cafe that allows me to stop my thirsty and/or starving children from whining, children's librarians who are so great that my kids always want to be on that floor, and an unbelievable collection of American movies on DVD. I know, I know, I should be reading contemporary novels instead--but I'm too busy watching Lubitsch and laughing.

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