Dear All, I finally got around to adding the pictures Bob took of the Nomocharis we saw blooming in Harry Hay's garden in May. I forgot to note which species it is. Do any of you who might grow it recognize it? This genus is so beautiful. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… No long ago someone wrote me privately wondering how in the world there could be a Tecophilaea growing in South Africa. The IBSA web page of photographs has their pictures divided by families and indeed South Africa does have representatives in the Tecophilaeaceae family (Cyanella). When we set up our wiki we debated whether we wanted to arrange our pictures that way and decided not to even though eventually that would mean people would have to page down our table once we had a lot of genera represented. We wanted to appeal to a broad group and knew a lot of people would not know what family to look in to find the plant they wanted to look at. Also since a lot of genera get whipped in and out of different families by the taxonomists, we'd be hard pressed to keep up. I have added a picture of California's genus in the Tecophilaeaceae family, Odontostomum. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… This genus has only one species and it is interesting to think how the genera in this family are so widely distributed and often don't have a lot of species. Every year I hope to get a better picture, but perhaps that is the nature of this plant which some might say would be a California collector's plant. I think it is charming in an understated way and it has been easy to grow. Mary Sue Mary Sue Ittner California's North Coast Wet mild winters with occasional frost Dry mild summers