Hi Lee: Crypt haemanthoides has a regular season, usually flowering from July though to the end of September. Mine is currently in flower. Harold At 08:10 PM 9/4/2009, you wrote: >Unlike Clivia miniata, which in my area flower the vast majority of the >time on a strict annual schedule where you start seeing the scape appear >down in the bottom of the leaves usually in February (late winter/early >spring) and flowering for about a month starting in March or so, my >Cryptostephanus vansonii don't seem to have any schedule that I can >ascertain. Flowers seem to appear at random times throughout the year. >Now I've only had a well-growing C. haemanthoides for 2 growing seasons >so far, but this year it appears to be growing like gangbusters. I don't >know if this has anything to do with the unusually mild summer we had >until it suddenly became unbearably hot with very little cooling at >night (and very smoky with ash every day for the more than a week now) > >I'm not sure when it flowers, if it does so at some specific season. But >I hope this year or next it will flower for me. > >--Lee Poulsen >Pasadena, California, USA, USDA Zone 10a > > >James Waddick wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > I was surprised to see a tiny pale flower in a shady area and > > traced it back to a plant of Cryptostephanus vansonii. This is the > > 'pink' form although in the current warm weather I doubt it will show > > much pink color. > > > > This hasn't bloomed for me all that often and I seem to > > recall it blooming in spring, not late summer. I checked out the wiki > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > > and see that Lee Poulsen blooms his in Oct. so maybe this > > isn't so far off. > > > > What is the usual bloom time in northern gardens? Any other reports? > > > > Thanks Jim W. > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/