Linda, I brought back some Rhadamanthus seed from South Africa last November that I collected in a nursery, as opposed to in the wild. Late spring there, obvously. I sowed them in the usual way (gritty soil mix, cover with grit) in April (early spring here, breaking all the rules) and they germinated quickly, in a week as I recall. They have grown happily all summer with no signs of wanting to go dormant. LOTS of water and rainfall have not bothered them. Even the slugs ignored them. They never put up more than a single skinny leaf, however. Now I wonder what they will do this fall/winter in the greenhouse. It will be nice if I can get a year long growing season without having them go dormant. One other note: the wiki note states that they come from the Richtersveld and Namaqualand. In fact they are much more widespread. The ISI selection from a while back comes from near DeRust in the Little Karoo, a good 400 miles from the Richtersveld. The aforementioned seeds that I planted were marked as having come from Calitzdorp (another Little Karoo locality) and Caledon, which is getting even closer to the south coast and has much more rainfall. Off topic, I also brought back some Whiteheadia bifolia (aka Massonia) seeds from South Africa. When I visited Kirstenbosch, Ernst van Jaarsveld was kind enough to offer me seeds, knowing my interest in massonia. I expected him to pull out a seed packet, but instead we went upstairs in the conservatory. He proceeded to jump over the glass into one of the display beds, and found a dried out seed head. Sadly, there were only TWO seeds remaining. I wasn't expecting much when I finally got around to planting them three weeks ago, but they both germinated in about five days. The fresher massonia seed that I planted at the same time are just sitting there. --Roy NW of Boston