A local friend and I have been emailing back and forth this morning on the subject of Nerine culture. This was prompted by her mention of another friend who grows Nerine. One outcome of this was my being given a link to Nerine on the PlantzAfrica site, in particular to an article written by Graham Duncan. In that article, Duncan casts doubt on the story that Nerine sarniensis was introduced to Guernsey as flotsam (or was it as jetsam?) in the mid-seventeenth century. Here's the link to the article. http://plantzafrica.com/plantnop/… Does anyone know what the evidence is for this doubt? The reason I'm asking is that I know that the story of the shipwreck and the Nerine has been told since at least the last decades of the seventeenth century. In other words, the story dates at least from the period about thirty years after the actual shipwreck event, from a time when it seems reasonable to assume there were still those who remembered the events in question. Jim McKenney jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where the temperature has not gotten above the freezing point yet today. My Virtual Maryland Garden http://www.jimmckenney.com/ BLOG! http://mcwort.blogspot.com/ Webmaster Potomac Valley Chapter, NARGS Editor PVC Bulletin http://www.pvcnargs.org/ Webmaster Potomac Lily Society http://www.potomaclilysociety.org/