Hi all, The Lachenalia and the Massonia in the cool greenhouse are starting to bloom. I pollinated two clones of Lachenalia rubida rubra yesterday. Maybe I'll get some seeds. The scapes are starting to come up on Lachenalia viridiflora now as well. I have a picture of this species at: http://shieldsgardens.com/amaryllids/… L. pusilla bloomed a month ago, all over the place. I should have seeds of it in a month or so. Massonia sp. cf. depressa is in bloom. The seeds for this one came labeled as "Androcymbium" so I'm not sure of the species. It might be M. echinata, maybe..... I have a web page on Massonia as well, at: http://shieldsgardens.com/amaryllids/… but it still contains only minimal information. I have lost all my Massonia jasminiflora plants, so I'm down to a couple M. pustulata and one M. echinata besides the depressa? bulbs. Androcymbium are interesting, but only one species grows in summer, A. melantioides (striatum), so far as I recall. A pot of A. latifolium (pulchrum) are in bud and due to bloom shortly. Haemanthus pauculifolius is the only Haemanthus in bloom now. Everything else has finished up for this season. It flowers just as the old leaf on each bulb is yellowing off. Until you clean off the senescent leaves, a clump looks a bit tacky, even though it is blooming. Best wishes, Jim Shields in central Indiana (USA), where the ice storm went north of us and the heavy rains went south of us and the heavy fog has yet to materialize today. ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA