Mary Sue, Jim, and all, I have a bulb labeled Cyrtanthus (montanus x elatus) which I bought from Jim Duggan in the spring of 2001. That year it bloomed midsummer, on a very short stalk - so short, in fact, that if the plant had not been in a pot, the flowers would have been lying on the ground. This year it bloomed once during the early summer on a short scape, and is blooming again right now on a 14" scape. Here is a link to a photo of the current scape. http//http://concentric.net/~ellipsis/Plants/… Jim, does this appear to be the same plant you have? Do you know the hybridizer? It is slightly less saturated in color (more orange, less red) than the picture shows. I have never set a seed on it, although my only attempts were using its own pollen. The bulb is almost evergreen here if I remember correctly, and I leave it out in the elements year-round, where it receives full sun and a wet winter. In the summer, I feed it regularly with an organic liquid fertilizer (12-6-6) at half-strength. It was in a 1-gallon nursery container, then I moved it up to a 2-gallon early this spring, separately potting a few offsets. A few weeks ago I noticed that the largest of the offsets had lost its leaves, and when I investigated, I found a B-B sized hole in the basal plate. I sliced the bulb in half vertically, and discovered that the heart had been consumed by a large white grub. I put the rooted basal plate and the bulb scales that were still attached to it (all dusted with Captan) in a pot, where I hope to generate a few more offsets. I put the other half of the bulb's scales against the glass of a quart Mason jar of potting mix with a screen top, adding the grub, creating my very own Narcissus Bulb Fly Farm. This is not the first time a Bulb Fly larvae has attacked an Amaryllid here. I lost a Cyrtanthus elatus and a Stenomesson variegatum within the last three years. Ken Kehl East S.F. Bay Area, Ca. USDA Zone 9 -2°C to 38°C