Hi Gang, I'm looking for a trade, details at bottom of message. Hesperantha/Schizostylis coccinea is a great plant for me. I purchased a few rhizomes/corms 3-4 years ago from worldplants.com. I have the scarlet-red form and it seems to like it here in Conroe, TX. I didn't understand what the plants needed or how the grow in the wild, so I just put them in a pile of average soil that sits a bit higher than the rest of the plot. Then, I forgot about them as native perennials covered them up. In December of the first year, after a frost had nipped back much of the overgrowth, I saw the sword-like leaves emerging. They were bright and happy all winter but I don't recall if they suffered from temperatures about 23 F, if so they didn't suffer much. In late winter or early spring they put on a very good show and eventually disappeared under the regrowth of summer plants. This fall I decided to dig them up and put them in a different location because I will eventually replant their current mixed up soil pile garden menagerie. When I examined the plants this week I was delighted to see seedlings coming up, I've never bothered to notice if the plants set seed. It is possible that the small plants are from rhizomes; they are up to 12-15 inches away from the mother plant. There are 8-12 little plants and the original clump is still a mannerly 5 inches across. This week I read up on the plant and found that at least some folks grow it wet all the time and that it is a riverine plant in South Africa. Then I found a note in the PBS archives describing H/C coccinea as a possibly invasive plant. Sure enough, it is listed in the Global Compendium of Weeds. Weed or not, my plant has not increased dramatically in 3-4 years but there is clearly potential for this plant to take off, perhaps if I had planted it in a more consistently moist area. I'm going to move part of my clump to an area that stays more consistently wet over the summer, perhaps the plants will achieve the "large displays" described in some Web articles. A quick Google indicates that there are pink-flowered, white-flowered, salmon-colored, and maybe even blood-red--flowered forms, and many named varieties. If the species really does grow up to 2500 m in Nature, it might be quite cold hardy under some conditions. I'd like to trade for other colors. Please contact me privately if you want the scarlet-red form. Cordially, Joe jshaw@opuntiads.com LINK: H/S coccinea at Plantzafrica http://plantzafrica.com/planthij/… LINK: Schizostylis/Hesperantha a confused genus (A. Kennedy, PBS Archives) http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbslist/old.php/… LINK: Global Compendium of Weeds, S. coccinea http://hear.org/gcw/html/…