To make amends to Mary Sue and all those not as enthralled as I by discussions of pronunciation, I'll contribute a bit to this TOW. I grow a lot of summer growing bulbs outdoors in their pots during the summer, and then store them dry, dark, and dormant in their pots in the basement over winter. Hymenocallis, Hippeastrum, Sprekelia, Crinum, and some Nerine come to mind as examples. Haemanthus montanus can be handled this way, but it is hard on it. Haemanthus humilis hirsutus grows from mid-summer through mid-winter and is a bear to handle, even with a greenhouse. This does not work with the summer-growing (evergreen) Haemanthus, however. They need to spend the winter in a brightly lit spot, with some water occasionally. A sunny south-facing window (Northern Hemisphere) would probably be fine for Haemanthus albiflos, H. deformis, and H. pauculifolius over the winter. Then they should go outdoors under high shade for the summer. Mine spend the summer in the same lath house with the Clivia, Scadoxus, and a few other shade lovers. In fact I think that a couple Clivia, the aforementioned evergreen Haemanthus, Scadoxus multiflorus katherinae, and Scadoxus puniceus (hysteranthous: goes dormant in autumn, blooms very late winter or early in spring, foliage in late spring) would make a great combination for use as house plants in winter and outdoor shade plants in summer. I grow Zantedeschia either stored bone dry in the basement in winter and repotted in spring (outdoors, high shade in summer) or left potted in a cold frame. Now the cold frame worked for a couple of winters, but I see a lot of damage to those tubers this year. Maybe the cold frame is not such a good idea after all in USDA cold zone 5. For many years, I grew Hymenocallis, Hippeastrum (Dutch hybrids), Sprekelia, and Crinum by planting them outdoors in the ground in May and digging them in October, then storing them as bare bulbs in boxes over winter -- also dry, dark, dormant and in the basement. Not recommended! The chore of digging in Fall and replanting in Spring gets really old after just a couple years. Jim Shields in central Indiana (USA) ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. +1-317-896-3925 Member of INTERNATIONAL CLIVIA CO-OP