Angelo: If you grow Eucomis 'Sparkling Burgundy' from seed you will get purple offspring, but since we introduced it 24 years ago, we have never had any seedlings as dark as the original. I'll add to the note about floppiness, I attribute most of this to a lack of air movement. Without good air movement, the cell walls of the plant become weak and cause the leaves to flop. It's a very common practice in commercial greenhouses to increase the air flow to increase turgidity of the stems. At 10:19 PM 7/12/2005 +0200, you wrote: >I have had also the same problem as Arnold mentioned, that is floppy leaves on pole evansii grown in rather small pots. Now they are in the ground and bigger pots and have all upright huge leaves. >BTW anyone know (Tony Avent are you there??) if Eucomis 'Burgundy Sparkling' come true from seed? > >Angelo Porcelli >Italy > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > Tony Avent Plant Delights Nursery @ Juniper Level Botanic Garden 9241 Sauls Road Raleigh, NC 27603 USA Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F USDA Hardiness Zone 7b email tony@plantdelights.com website http://www.plantdel.com/ phone 919 772-4794 fax 919 772-4752 "I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least three times" - Avent