Dear All, My original seed came from Jim Forrest in New Zealand who I suspect got his seed from Flores & Watson. My comment about thinking it might need some water during dormancy just came from my observation that the ones I planted in a summer dry raised bed never came back. I have since given my dormant pots occasional summer water and have had good luck. Mine stay outside all the time so get heavy winter rain and occasional freezing temperatures. I move them to the shade for summer. I guess I am going to need to try planting one out again and see what happens. Mine bloom in May and June which once again is later than in the UK. This year I repotted into a larger pot and looked at it carefully and it reminded me of some of those Australian geophytes with their amazingly strange underground storage organs. From memory I'm not sure I can describe it, but if Peter calls it a rhizome maybe it also has tuberous roots while in growth. Mary Sue