Hello all ~ Recent mention of tulbaghia on the listserv has prompted me to ask about the following. I bought some Tulbaghia simmleri (fragrans) several years ago and have them planted in a pot and growing outdoors with very little care here in Northern California. I babied them indoors the first season but didn't get back home until late January the following year so they survived outdoors through some frosty weather that damaged the foliage and stems of flowers then in bloom. With warmer weather, the plants renewed the foliage for the following season. The plants have bloomed every winter since receipt (and are currently in bloom with several stems of flowers) but, for the life of me, I cannot detect any fragrance (in the coolness of winter or in the warmth indoors). Now, I know my olfactory apparatus still works because I seem able to detect what others appear not to. Thus, the question becomes one of why can't I (or my wife, for that matter) detect any fragrance?? Assuming physiology is not at fault here, are some of these plants just not fragrant? That is, as a species, is that trait not universal? I originally bought the plants (from Monocot in England) because I had read they were "intensely" fragrant and can only assume they were divisions from obviously fragrant stock. Thus, I am puzzled why these plants do not exhibit the fragrance that originally generated the epithet "fragrans." Dave Karnstedt Windsor, California, USA