Hi Doug and all, I never doubted that Cape Town was a better place to grow plants than Indiana is, but is it possible that it is also better than "Lotusland" in Southern California? By the way, it also has lots prettier scenery! Jim Shields in the aforementioned miserable Indiana, where the temperature is +20 °F (-6.7 °C) with only 4 inches (100 mm) of snow if you don't count the blowing and drifting At 02:06 PM 2/16/03 +0200, you wrote: >Dear Doug >For Scadoxus multiflorus ssp katherinae in Cape Town it is about 3 years for >the first plants to flower, and at 4 years they all flowered. >Regards >Rachel Saunders ************************************************* 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