Hippeastrum - Amaryllis 'Sweet Nymph'

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'Sweet Nymph'

Soon January is coming to its end and so it is for all my dear Hippeastrums (Amaryllis). I have had six different varieties this year and they sure have given my so much joy. This is one of the last, the stunning 'Sweet Nymph'

'Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen

Within thy airy shell

By slow Meander's margent green,

And in the violet-embroidered vale

Where the lovelorn nightingale

Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well:

Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair

That likest thy Narcissus are?'

John Milton (1608-1674), 'Comus'

 John William Waterhouse - Echo and Narcissus