Dear Julie, Needs to be planted very deep 20cm(5") soil above the bulbs. This will keep the bulb cool and the fleshy roots stay intact. High temperature definite abort the flowers and that why it is not easy to grow in pots. I got a large clump in a dry terassed rockery. Most of the years the leaves stray throughout the summer and flower in July august. This year the rockery become extremly dry and the leaves die off. But to my surprise in, the middle of August appeared 15-20 flowerstalks which made brillant show. This winter I will put these pictures in our website. (Just today I harvested the seeds which will be sown immediately and wilmlm germintated towards the end of the winter.) The lesson is deep planting in the open sunny ground a absolutely dry during July August. I hope this is of any help, because only for their scent it is already worth the effort. Greetings Lauw le 19/11/05 12:43, julia feise à arcadianart@hotmail.com a écrit : > I have a large bulb of Pancratium maritimum which we found lying on the > surface of the sands last year at the beach at Xerocambos in Southern Crete. > I brought it home with me to draw and paint in all its growth stages, so I > potted it up on the surface of local sand from the beach. It didn't do > well, so I removed it to draw and then left it in my studio. This Autumn I > noticed that it was producing a shoot, so I have now repotted it in a deep, > narrow terracotta pot once again in sand from the beach where the plants > grow. This time I planted it fairly deeply - up to the neck of the bulb. > The new shoot has died off and it isn't producing any new growth. Someone > please help!!!! I really want this bulb to do well. I keep the pot on our > roof terrace which faces east...is this the problem? > Lauw de Jager http://www.bulbargence.com/ South of France (zone 8 Olivier)