Diane Whitehead noted that her Bulbinella hookeri never germinated. I collected seed of bulbinellas on S. Island New Zealand myself, and planted some immediately and some later, and none of it ever germinated either. On the other hand, there are some bulbinellas, or bulbines, I'm not sure which, from South Africa that seed so madly that people in warm climates regard them as noxious weeds. Jane McGary