Website? ----- Original Message ----- From: Hannon To: Pacific Bulb Society Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 7:24 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] Sprekelia I have listed this species in my 2008 summer bulb list. They are sturdy seedlings several years old. Requests for this list are welcome (US orders only), please send a private request to me at othonna<at>gmail<dot>com. Also on this list are rare species of Dandya, Hymenocallis, Rauhia and Stenomesson, most with locality information. A winter grower list is also available but these will not be shipped until June of this year. I find S. howardii easy to grow here outdoors in Los Angeles so long as it is kept out of winter rains. It starts growth in early summer and finishes in late fall so do not expect spring activity-- as with geophytes from the monsoon climate areas of Mexico generally. Its hysteranthous habit (flowers appearing above bare soil before the leaves) is very appealing and the flowers are large compared to the plant overall and blood red. Bulbs are more like Rhodophiala or Zephyranthes in being subterranean with a long neck; foliage is also distinct from S. formosissima in being uniformly narrower, darker and with some red tinting. S. howardii grows in hot dry canyons at lower elevations than S. formosissima. It is a fine species, recognized decades ago by Thad as distinctive, and I am pleased to be able to offer it. Dylan Dylan Hannon Rare Bulbs