Dear Angelo, You mentioned... "in the last years I have gathered quite a number of Crinum, more than 40 among species and hybrids and now many are reaching flowering size and this can be rather lengthy from seed for the pure species.... But now I am changing my mind a bit. These flowers, although nice and scented, are very short lasting and if I wasn't been up very late that night a couple of weeks ago, I would have missed Crinum amoenum flowering which lasted one night only. The others don't last than two days. ...As crinums are often very cumbersome plants and personally I don't find them nice foliage plants apart asiaticum, I wonder if still make sense to grow them." I, too, don't think all crinums are a good deal, but some well chosen kinds give several days of flowering - almost up to a week in the case of Mrs. James Hendry or Emma Jones. Then, they repeat. Some of my Digweedii and milk and wine lilies throw up many stalks of flowers over the spring and summer. So, I think they are garden-worthy. Actually, it's things such as Rhodophiala that don't last very long for me. Cynthia W. Mueller College Station, TX