Hi, I was thrilled recently to see that the Haemanthus humilis 'Giant' that I purchased from African Bulbs was going to bloom. Haemanthus never caught my interest before I started communicating with other bulb fans on the Internet and Doug Westfall's enthusiasm got my attention. I've now had four different ones bloom and I'm finding I can grow them better than some of the other South African Amaryllids I have tried. And it doesn't seem to take so long before they bloom. It is of interest that the ones I am doing well with are summer rainfall species I leave in my green house not the winter rainfall species, but I haven't given up hope on them either. I may try planting H. coccineus out in the garden as the leaves I saw in the wild were often enormous and I probably couldn't find a big enough pot. It is very thrilling to have the Giant bloom because it will bring back memories of our trip to the Eastern Cape at the wrong time of the year when finding flowers was difficult so we went bird watching with Cameron and Rhoda. They took us to the habitat for this plant, a tall rocky cliff next to a river. With binoculars we could make out these huge leaves growing on that cliff. I have added a lot of pictures to the wiki from Alan Horstmann and myself, but as I have time will add some more from Cameron (after I finish adding some new species pictures we didn't have on the wiki of Moraea). Cameron has some wonderful habitat pictures of Haemanthus including one of Giant's habitat. We are starting to get some leaf and fruit pictures added to the wiki. So many books illustrate only the flowers of some of the Amaryllids that bloom before their leaves and it's wonderful to see what the leaves look like. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… New photos: Haemanthus amarylloides leaves from Alan Haemanthus coccineus leaves we say near Bainskloof Haemanthus coccineus seeds from Alan Haemanthus crispus leaves in habitat from Alan and from our visit to Namaqualand in September Haemanthus deformis from pictures taken when it bloomed in December that I hadn't added to the wiki- notice how nice and hairy it is and how huge. It's in a pot 12 inches deep Haemanthus humilis Giant taken last week as the buds showed and progressed, also very hairy Haemanthus pubescens ssp arnicolis leaves from Alan Haemanthus tristis flowers from Alan Mary Sue