Dear Robin, Have you tried setting your plant outside? Does it prefer cool (say air conditioning?) Sphinx moths and hummingbirds I have in profusion, but I also have an awful lot of heat. By the way, I grew up calling them hummmingbird moths, my New York husband calls them sphinx. Aren't common names wonderful? Lisa > Robin Attrill wrote: > > Dear all, > > One of the loveliest of summer flowering geophytes, although rather seldom seen, is Sinningia tubiflora. ...... -- Lisa Flaum Waterloo, SW Illinois, USA Min -10F Max 105F (-24C to 40C) Wet winter, dry summer punctuated by gully washers, high humidity, unreliable snow cover, clay soil Member NARGS, PBS, IBS, SRGC, RHS,