Hi all, I have kept what Sir Peter said on the IBS forum about growing Nerine sarniensis. I have an old email address for him and I do not know if it is still correct. I will see if he is willing to let me repost it to the group. I'm happy to share it privately with anyone who emails me, but think I'd need his permission to add it to public archives. He had amazing success growing Nerines and when I was lucky enough to visit him in Switzerland we saw large dazzling photographs of the results in the entry to his house. Jim Shields is correct in saying that he did not recommend fertilizing these plants and felt that fertilization, especially to promote flowering, could lead to losing the plant to virus. In the post I saved he said he did not fertilize his plants at all. Having said that however, being part of various bulb lists for quite a few years now has convinced me that there are often many different ways to grow bulbs successfully. I have tried many methods others have suggested that didn't work for me, no doubt because I could not replicate those exact environmental conditions. And I suspect that people following my advice have had mixed results as well. I have been experimenting with Nerine sarniensis and paying attention to what did and didn't work for me. I'm not bold enough however to say that I am sure that I will be successful next year. Perhaps none of them will bloom at all. But it does seem that in my climate growing these in the green house year round has helped. They have more warmth in summer than they would outside in my mild summer climate with cool nights and are also protected from excessive winter rainfall that led to unattractive sickly leaves. Some water during dormancy helps too. I feed my plants only lightly. Hopefully I can add some pictures to the wiki soon of my successful blooms this year from Zinkowski rescue bulbs. Mary Sue