Dear Tsuh Yang, My Veltheimia capensis are too small to bloom, but I think Doug has said they flower early in the fall. My V. bracteata have just started to bloom in the last couple of weeks when we have been having a heat wave (by our standards 10 to 25 degrees warmer than usual for a couple of weeks and dry.) I assume yours are inside however so probably someone who grows them as house plants would be better able to say when theirs bloom. They are in bud a long time. As for your statement "now, the capensis is growing leaves at the top of the inflorescence", it seems a little strange. My plants are starting to die back. Do you suppose you could upload a picture to the wiki so we'd know what you are talking about? Mary Sue