Although here in Texas I've always just planted them in early spring and they do fine. I think it's more of an issue if you live farther north and if those are your temps it sounds like you do.

If it is the bulb, it should have been planted in the fall, but I would plant it right now while the soil is as cool as it is going to be.

If it is the plant, I would wait until the temps are not getting below freezing.

You will enjoy them, and if they don't do well this year, they may do much better next year. And they can really multiply well.

thanks.
from looking online, I think it is more common, probably better, to buy the bulb.
I think this nursery is selling this plant in flower, for people like me, that are not familiar with it. lol. I took the bait. But it is ok, it is beautiful.

I remembered why I don't do bulbs -
is it true that we must leave the foliage after blooming, as that is when the plant is gathering nutrients?
that is what I read somewhere.
that we can't cut the foliage even when it is brown and ugly.

Is that true for this plant?

of so, then I must plant something in front of it which will bloom later in the season.

the plant is gathering nutrients for next year when the foliage is still green. When it's dried up and brown, you can trim it. I tend to leave it for winter protection until the Spring, however.

do I leave it outside all winter?
water it?
thanks

When I lived in California, I used to leave an Amaryllis in a pot outside all "winter," dump some fertilizer on it in the spring and it bloomed every year. That's all I know. I would web search for info.

seed, not a bulb, so it was done. finished. caput.
$5.99 for a plant that lasted less than a month.
I been had!

I don't like that nursery, won't go back.

The web says these are mostly perennials.