Hi, I've given up on getting any Rhodophiala bifida to bloom for me. No luck in pots, no luck in the ground. And I've been trying for a very long time. One year there was a freak bloom that gave me hope, but that has been it. The ones in deep pots produce leaves. The ones in the ground may or may not exist anymore. We will be going on a trip to Australia in two weeks so am hoping some of the fall blooming things I'll get to see before we go. My Nerine sarniensis hybrids are having a good year although the spikes are unusually long. The flowers are so lovely and shiny! And Gladiolus carmineus is popping into bloom all over my garden. I have some early Oxalis in bloom and a Haemanthus grown from seed from Doug Westfall that is going to bloom. It was supposed to be H. albiflos, but I think it is probably a hybrid instead. And the Cyclamen are spectacular. It's been an unusually warm summer for us. People are raving about all the vegetables that they have been able to harvest so as always it is interesting to watch for what does better and what does worse as the weather changes. I have a couple of spikes on Cyrtanthus (one hybrid) and one on C. sanguineus that mostly got wiped out by the Narcissus bulb fly so I was surprised to see the start of a spike in the middle of some of the little offsets I saved when I tossed the bigger ones eaten by the grubs. So I guess there are some compensations for those of us not easily able to grow Lycoris and Rhodophiala. Still no Crocus yet however, but I can hope. One pleasure a couple of weeks ago was a bloom from a Scadoxus membraneus. Patty Colville and I shared a few seeds from Henry Pauw in South Africa in 2001 that I had labeled something else. I don't know how Patty did with hers, but I ended up with one plant that has since increased. Last year it bloomed for the first time and the flower bloomed in the leaves. I took a picture of it with me to South Africa hoping to confirm its identity and Cameron McMaster said it looked deformed. His wife on the other hand said something kinder like sometimes young plants bloom better in subsequent years and that has been true this year. I thought it absolutely charming this year. The foliage once again hugs the ground whereas the plants I grew from Doug's seed of the same species have foliage that is taller. The blooms of the plant from Henry's seed were short again, but tall enough to be seen and a very pleasing combination with the leaves. Mary Sue