I haven't found the winter rainfall Albuca species to do very well for me in my Northern California garden. I have a couple in pots and they often don't break dormancy. Some I put in the ground I never saw again. I'm assuming they might want more summer heat but I'm not sure. Ornithogalums are hit and miss too that way and Daubenya. I'm happy that I can grow Massonia, Lachenalia, and Polyxena. Luckily I have a large enough collection of bulbs now that I no longer grieve the losses and just concentrated on the successes although I will admit to having tried some of the really pretty Ornithogalums and Daubenyas more than once. I have a couple of species of the latter that do come up, but so far haven't bloomed or grown very fast. There is only so much room in the greenhouse to put all the South African and South American species that wish for warmer summer temperatures. As Linda wrote Albuca canadensis, syn. Albuca maxima, is definitely a winter rainfall species. Not too long ago I added some habitat pictures to the wiki of it. It really makes a statement in the wild. Also the name has been changed. I checked with John Manning on this and he confirmed this to be true in spite of it being named maxima in some books he had written rather recently. It is now considered Albuca canadensis which used to be the name for a yellow flowered species and which is a strange name for a South African species. I rather suspect this is going to be a change that is resisted as it is well known as Albuca maxima. I'd think if Linda is growing it in a container it might need a very large one eventually. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Mary Sue