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The Amaryllis Bulb, Week 6

December 23, 2013 by Jeanne

It’s a Christmas miracle.The amaryllis bulb is growing!  And you know why?

Classical music.

Seriously.

Amaryllis Bulb, Week 6

My plant room is my little sanctuary in the rear of the house. On a typical evening, I turn on a classical music CD, light a scented candle, and read for an hour or two while I run back and forth cooking dinner. Sometimes I’m sitting in my little room for a half hour, other times an hour or more.  But the Classical music is always on, softly and sweetly, in the background.

Except during the Christmas season. Then I sit in the room we call the library, where we have a fireplace and the Christmas tree.  I love to sit on the couch all curled up with the tree and the fireplace and a good book.

That’s where I’ve been for the past several weeks. And my amaryllis bulb? Not growing.

Now this past week, however, I really wanted to listen to my Giovanni Gabrielli CD. It’s music from the 15th century and around this time of year I really want to hear the brass and woodwinds and the gorgeous harmonies that mark his music.  So I nestled into the plant room yesterday and listened to Gabrielli. And when Gabrielli was done, I felt like listening to Dvorak’s New World Symphony, so I sat and listened to that. I read a book and relaxed while the rain splashed in the gutters and various cats came back to my plant room to visit with me, while Shadow kept a watchful eye out for feline mischief.

This evening, when I stepped into the plant room to photograph the amaryllis for my weekly blog post, I was astonished to see a sudden surge in growth. Not just from the main stem, but from the smaller side stem that Whitey had chewed on several weeks ago.

Is it just a myth that plants love classical music? It this just coincidence?

I can’t believe it. It just seems….right.

My plants, apparently, love classical music as much as I do.

So now we have a date tomorrow. Handel’s Messiah. It is Christmas Eve, after all!

My amaryllis week 6.  It has very good taste in music.

 

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  1. Gardener on Sherlock Street

    December 25, 2013 at

    Looking good. Keep playing the music.

    Merry Christmas!

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