Bill posted a reply to our questions on Bulb images so I am sending it to our list for those who may not be subscribed. He has posted images as he promised. I saw one of these planted at the gardens at the University of California Berkeley garden and it was huge. I've been wondering if it would be too wet in winter for me to plant it out and you make that sound like that would be true and now I wonder if it won't be warm enough in summer. I can't usually get Eucomis to bloom although it grows well enough. The only ones I planted out disappeared over time so I have kept them in containers. How do you get a bulb to bake during a winter dormancy? I guess I probably should try to divide mine and plant one out as it also sounds like it is too big for a container as Cathy suspected. There is a lot of competition for my sunniest, warmest spot and unfortunately it is not an area I water a lot in summer either so I may not be able to give this what it needs. Perhaps it is lucky only one survived. Bill, with all those extras you have perhaps you could develop a new business after John Bryan has listed all the uses of this bulb. But you'd have to keep them away from the sheep. Mary Sue