Dear All, Canarina is a beautiful plant but can be tricky and I had failures before. Seedlings need a certain tuber size before they flower and this may take several years. Also it is important not to keep them too warm in spring as warmth induces dormancy, if this happens too early in the season tuber growth will be poor and the tuber will be prone to rotting. Also the tuber must not be kept totally dry when dormant, even with watering in summer growth will not start, it has a very precise timing for winter growth. I have seen cultivated plants in German Botanical Gardens more than 3m high (or long) Canarina canariensis is not an epiphyte. All the wild plants I saw in habitat were definetely terrestrial but in a soil with good humus content, some also in rock pockets. Most grew on steep slopes together with bracken and rubus in disturbed places or in endemic canarian laurel formation in more unspoilt areas. They grow in relatively high altitudes in the cloud belt forests where it is moist and cool all year (I have never been there in summer but it will not be hot and dry there) I wonder if the tuber and the summer dormancy are a relic from either a differnt climate or from ancestors that came form a typical mediterranean climate. Maybe there is a botanist out there who can answer this. In its present habitat it does neither "need" nor tuber nor dormancy. I think the plant never gets any frost, I find it extremely sensitive to frost, even cold air currents when opening the greenhouse door during hard frosts has caused leaf burn on my plant that growns near the door. A picture and more text can be seen http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Sorry for my picture being out of focus, I did not notice that when sending it. I looked at Bill Dykes plant which is magnifident! bye for today, Uli