Dear All, As I madly try to get ready to go to South Africa there are a few things about to bloom that I will be very disappointed to miss. I hover over them every day saying, "Please please bloom." One of them is my Cyrtanthus elatus x montanus. Bill Dijk gave some of those little bulbs that Mark described on his plants a number of years ago and I planted them. I have since given quite a lot to our BX as my plants grew big, but did not bloom and made baby bulbs like mad. So I asked this group for help. Alberto said plant in a much bigger pot and deeper. Jim Shields who was getting multiple bloom a year from his agreed and Ken Kehl said he had his outside. So I potted up in my biggest pot and planted them deeper and now there are not so many of those little bulbs on the surface. And I moved the pot outside in the late spring. And now there are five lovely flowers that just have to bloom before I leave. I love the outside color of them so at least I have that to enjoy. I am sure our Cyrtanthus experts will answer Mark's question. Perhaps planting deeper in a big pot will help too. I am hoping we will discuss Cyrtanthus in detail this fall as a topic of a week if Paul Chapman finds the time during his vacation to do his introduction. The Bessera bulbs I got from Diana's spring sale are going to bloom too, but I am not as hopeful about them opening before I leave. Yesterday my first Amaryllis belladonna hybrids opened. Only three, but I suppose others could appear later. The species has been out and about where I live, but the ones I have in my garden haven't bloomed for three years even though they used to. The bulbs are rather large and produce leaves. Perhaps it is too shady where they are. Do they need to be divided when they get that large to bloom properly? Mary Sue