Dear All, I finished adding more of Bob Werra's Moraea pictures to the wiki. I still have a number of native Fritillaria pictures, some Gladiolus, and some Romulea pictures of his to do. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… New pictures are of Moraea neopavonia (considered now to be M. tulbaghensis and quite striking), Moraea papilionacea, and a picture of Moraea tripetala. I can't believe how many weeks and blooms I got from the latter this year. I'm not sure whether it was our long dry warm spell, but something was to their liking. We had pictures on the wiki, but his picture give an idea of the plants, not just the flower and there were a lot blooming the same day. I also added a picture of my plants blooming one day recently just as it started to rain. I have added a couple of pictures of my second winter rainfall Aristea to bloom from seed, Aristea spiralis. It didn't stay in bloom very long, but it was very pretty and a nice shade of blue and I was thrilled when I saw the spike forming. I've had dismal luck growing Aristea from seed, which still seems surprising since A. ecklonii can reseed about in the garden. I now have a few plants of a number of species so am keeping my fingers crossed. I heard from Martin Grantham after writing our group before about my lack of success with seeds. We both had better luck with our own seed started in the fall after we harvesting our seed so fresh seed may be a help. My other plant which bloomed last spring took a long time for the seed to ripen so I didn't store it very long before it was time to plant it. John Ingram once reported better luck with spring planting and I wonder if that would have been because seed from the southern hemisphere could have been fresh. Martin was using GA3 in combination with a pure smoke concentrate sold by Kings Park BG in Australia which helped a bit and keeping his plants covered with plastic until they germinated. He was growing quite a few species. Maybe if he sees this message he will tell us if he has gotten his to bloom. Some of my seed pots that had zero germination the first year (planted in fall) had a couple of seeds germinate the second winter or spring. They are very tiny so still in the risky stage. There was really no difference between the pots I used the smoke packets I got from Silverhill versus those I did not. My plants seemed much happier once they got transplanted in the ground so I plan to do that with the others if they ever get big enough. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Mary Sue