On 19-Dec-09, at 10:08 AM, Dennis Kramb wrote: > > I've never saw a candy lily bloom! Therefore I think they're a > collective figment of everyone else's imagination. :-) Decades ago, I bought seeds from Parks. I think it was newly developed. The plants grew vigorously and were not damaged during the winter, but sometime in the spring they disappeared, so I never saw a bloom either. I germinated the five seeds of Iris dichotoma I got from SIGNA in 2004, but a search for them among my pots just now was not successful. Very elusive. Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada maritime zone 8, cool Mediterranean climate mild rainy winters, mild dry summers