Hi, When I looked at Ken's pictures that Lapeirousia oreogena caught my attention right away. I've been wanting to grow it since I saw Bill Dijk's pictures of it and saw it in the wild in South Africa. On this list I have said before that since I can successfully grow so many bulbs, that I have decided to content myself with accepting that there are some things I won't be success growing and that it will be far less frustrating to concentrate on those I can grow. This is especially true since I have too many pots and am trying to reduce the numbers. Since we are once again having a very wet year I'm experiencing a lot more disease in my pots this year so nature may help me with the limits this year. I have little luck growing any kind of Lapeirousia. I have gotten seeds to germinate, but I rarely see them in future years although the corms are there sometimes. I've had a couple bloom once for me (as in one corm out of a lot.) The one exception is Lapeirousia corymbosa which bloomed well the first year it bloomed from seed and after that only a few usually show up. Last year was another good year for it and this year there is only one up in two pots of a lot of corms. Perhaps they too need to reside permanently in the greenhouse, but if so something else has to go. My first two tries growing L. oreogena from seed weren't very successful and then Bill Dijk shared some more seed and quite a few of them germinated. These have been coming up in subsequent years and this year the leaves looked more like they are supposed to look so I was very excited. When I got back from South Africa I could see I was finally going to see it in bloom. So I brought my pot inside so I could enjoy it and protect it from the humidity of the every day rain we were having at the time. If this is going to be the only year it blooms, I wanted to fully appreciate it!!! I've added some pictures to the wiki today so the rest of you can see it too. The leaves are totally cool and the flowers amazing and the long tube tells you something about the pollinator. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Mary Sue