Hi all, The greenhouses are not very colorful just now. Lachenalia viridiflora has been blooming and now L. bulbifera is in full bloom. There were a few bright yellow flowers recently on Cypella peruviana. A hanging basket full of Gladiolus carmineus has three scapes topped with vivid pink flowers, showing the white blaze surrounded by a deep rose eye on each of the three lower tepals. These came as cormlets from the IBS BX some time ago. Haemanthus deformis bloomed and still looks very very white. The flowers are however wilting. I tried pollinating one plant by the other, just to see what happens. An occasional blue bloom still shows up on the pot of Moraea polystachya. A small pot of Romulea bulbocodium seedlings, planted in Feb. 2001, have bloomed a couple of times this month; but I never can catch them with their yellow flower open. We are waiting for the clivia seeds to ripen and for some clivia blooms to start pushing out from the heart of the plants. Nothing so far! Regards, Jim Shields in central Indiana ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. +1-317-896-3925 Member of INTERNATIONAL CLIVIA CO-OP