Anyone who ordered Nerine bulbs from Nick de Rothschild will need to get them through summer in good health, as those sarniensis hybrids are all winter growing, as far as I know. I've summered sarniensis hybrids with limited success for many years. Leaving the bulbs in the greenhouse over summer, as I do for Haemanthus and Lachenalia, is not good. As the others reported, the bulbs dry up and barely survive. One summer they sat outdoors under a table, getting some rain but not full exposure, and did very well. Another summer outdoors, wetter, did several of them in. This year, I am summering the sarniensis hybrids in my basement. I guess I should probably spritz them lightly with water once or twice before autumn comes. Jim Shields in central Indiana (USA) At 09:59 AM 7/11/2008 -0700, you wrote: >AH, >This is a great topic. I, also water my Nerines in the summer, lightly. >Certainly, no fertilizer, but grow all Nerines in clay pots, so they do NOT >stay wet. Works for me. >Clayton ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA