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We use certificates as a way to keep classes engaged
in the race. We ask classes to record and graph data about the
growth of their amaryllis. The certificates draw on this data.
We award a certificate in each category to each of our three
participating schools on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.
Most Amazing Amaryllis Name
- Classes submit a name for their amaryllis. We email our friends
of Granny community to vote on the names.
Fastest Food - This award recognizes the amaryllis with the
most leaves. It's the "fastest food" to remind students that the
leaves produce food for the plant during photosynthesis.
Shooting Star
- We pick a week and award the amaryllis whose stem grew the most in
that week - shooting because the stems can grow a lot in a week once
they get going, star because that's what the blooms resemble.
First Blooming
Bud - The name says it all. We award the amaryllis with
the first open flower. The first year all of our flowers were red.
With the addition of some bulbs in 2010, we were excited to see a red
and white variegated bloom.
Best Fed Bulb
- This is the award for the longest leaf, again to reinforce the
importance of leaves to feed the bulb and new plant.
Most
Bountiful Blooms
- Bulbs in the first year generally produced one stem with four blooms.
We did have one amazing plant that grew five blooms from one stem.
We summer our plants in the gardens and dig them up before frosty
weather sets in. Many of the bulbs continued to grow and divide
resulting in two stems in the second year.
Towering Above the Rest - For the students,
this is the ultimate prize - the tallest amaryllis plant. Our
record is Phyllis the Amaryllis at 26 inches in 2009.
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