Some years ago I grew a number of plants of Calostemma purpureum, an Australian coastal amaryllid, from seed and have been keeping them in a sort of solarium where I grow tender bulbs and house plants of various sorts. This summer I moved all the plants that I could out onto my covered deck, and having given the "greenhouse" a good cleaning, I am now going to move them back indoors. The Calostemmas put on a lot of growth over the summer and were watered moderately all season along with the other plants near them. It seems to me they haven't been dormant for quite a while. I just looked them up in several reference books and learned that their dormant period is summer -- but they didn't get a dormancy this year. They still look quite lively, with erect, glossy leaves, not like bulbs that are wanting to go dormant. Which would be better: dry them off now, when it's not possible to give the dormant bulbs a warm period (even indoors); or keep them moist and possibly growing through the winter? Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA