If you’ve got a poinsettia or amaryllis sitting in your home, making it look festive and bright for the holidays, don’t send those beautiful plants to the landfill with that dried up Christmas Tree. They are perfectly healthy and can be made to bloom year after year.

Many people buy Amaryllis
for holiday decorating–the huge, brightly colored blooms have become a
familiar centerpiece in many homes. But Amaryllis require lots of light and
water, and may be difficult to maintain indoors indefinitely. The solution?
Move your Amaryllis to the patio when the weather warms up. Or think completely
outside the box—or porch, as the case may be—and transplant your holiday
Amaryllis into your garden, where you can enjoy it well beyond the holidays.

Bloom-happy Amaryllis is desirable in almost any garden, given the
various colors and shapes of its many cultivars. Amaryllis makes a great
landscape plant. Of course, these beauties are much easier to care for in a
garden if the climate and soil are right.

You can also train your poinsettia to be bright red again next year