0:00 Hippeastrums or Amaryllis as you and I call them. The name was

0:05 done by a William Herbert Dean of Manchester 1837, beautiful plant.

0:10 Apparently named after the Horseman Star or the Night Star, some huge clubs

0:15 they used to beat each other around with back in those days but what a plant and

0:20 these are what you get from Parkers, thirty two centimeters, wonderful wonderful plant. Now

0:27 what about young people, young people don't do gardening, you look around

0:32 for presents for them what about this this is a beginner's guide to gardening

0:36 couldn't be simpler, few crocks in the bottom of a pot, now just on pots you

0:43 might be tempted to pull it in something that size but bear in mind this is

0:47 multi-stemmed it's gonna have three stems four or five flowers per stem this

0:51 is gonna grow big so just for the weight alone I put it in a pot this size might

0:56 look a bit big to start with but I think it'll pay dividends in the end.

1:01 A few crocks in the bottom and then some compost in, it's as simple and as easy as

1:06 that. Now imagine a young person doing this for the first time, you could show

1:10 them nothing could be simpler that's all you've got to do nice bit of

1:15 multi-purpose compost, now that is an Amaryllis, fantastic. Just push that down

1:22 a bit more compost around the base but bare in mind you don't

1:30 bury it so just firm it down nice and firm now the only what the one trick

1:36 you've got to learn with these is not to overwater until that starts growing

1:43 because then all what happens is the bulb starts to rot so don't overwater it

1:48 keep it nice and cool until you see the growing tip come out of there and then

1:53 wait for the fireworks three stems four or five flowers big trumpets magnificent

2:00 couldn't be easier for a beginner and you might just hit that spark that says

2:04 I like this gardening I'm gonna do more now there's so many colors of varieties

2:09 to choose from but my five top favorites are Black

2:13 Pearl, Apple Blossom oh that's a nice one,

2:16 Charisma, pale pink with deep pink edgings, Montblanc

2:20 pure white, and Naughty Girl. Where did he get these names from? Red and white,

2:25 beautiful. Red Peacock, that's called, oh there's so many to choose from.

2:30 Amaryllis, fantastic.