Is this the way to amaryllis? Here's a plant to cheer you up 

Follow this easy guide and in a few weeks' time you'll have a bloom that will see you through the season and beyond

The amaryllis plant. Picture: iStock

We’re well and truly in the run-up to the festive season now and I can’t picture a Christmas without at least one amaryllis growing in a pot in the home. 

Ever since I was a small child I have grown these beauties.