Dear Mary Sue and all, After several years of cultivation Paramongaia flowered with me for the first time last November. With me it is strictly winter growing at temperatures around 12 - 15 degrees Celsius. I grow it in a windowsill where it usually starts growing in the second half of October. It needs a porous soil and moderate watering. When water is hold back too long it will decide to go dormant. It hates the dry warm air from radiators which will also cause early dormancy. Both Paramongaia and Pamianthe do not want to be grown under warm circumstances as is sometimes suggested. They are definitely for the temperate greenhouse. Paramongaia goes dormant when the sunlight becomes stronger in March/April and the temperature is rising behind the glass in the windowsill. To me it seems to need a warm dry summerrest to initiate the forming of flowering buds. In a well equipped greenhouse with protection from strong sunlight and temperature control it will be possible to give Paramongaia a longer growing season up to May/June. Under the same conditions as Paramongaia I grow a pot with Hippeastrum igneum which is also a wintergrower. I understand that this should now be called Rhodophiala igneum. It is remarkable that this bulb has no lasting perennial roots like many Amaryllids; it makes new roots every year. Are other members of this forum growing it? In addition I enclose my contribution on Paramongaia of 6th January on the IBS forum. Greetings, Gerrit Oskam