Dear Friends, I was gone for week to visit Atlanta and much impressed by the streets lined with a variety of crepe myrtles. What a show! Surprised on returning home at the number and variety of Crinum still blooming and blooming for the first time. Super Ellen is on its third stalk and still dazzling. Crinum x powellii are mostly done except for selection including 'Nestor's Pink'. 'Cecil Houdyshel" and one labelled from Les Hannibal. This last Crinum has not bloomed before. I think it was passed along after Les' garden was dug and bulbs distributed. The flowers are a pale pink and the most fragrant hardy crinum as I reported before. I thought it was an x powellii type, but now that the flowers have faded, there are seeds forming. Sort of a surprise since this should be nearly totally sterile. Even C. scabrum is putting up a new stalk and a few x powellii, but minor. These crinum continue to impress me with their sturdiness, hardiness and vigor. A shame they are not seen more in gardens around here. Best Jim W. -- Dr. James W. Waddick 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 USA Ph. 816-746-1949 Zone 5 Record low -23F Summer 100F +