Hi, I didn't have time to reply to the original post this weekend, but I'd like to make a few comments. Some I've said in the past, but we've had new people join our group since then. Like Mike I sent money to Steve to assist him in trying to save some of the bulbs in the Zinkowski collection. I talked with Steve at a NARGS winter study meeting and he talked about what a horrible state the collection was in when he tried to save some of the plants. One of the benefits from participating was receiving some of the plants as a thank you. I gave half of mine to Diana Chapman. I don't know if she propagated any of them. I had very poor luck with them for years although there was one that looked more like a species that bloomed the best. At the time (1999) Harold Koopowitz advised us not to plant any of these in the ground. As an experiment I planted one in the ground and the rest in pots. The one in the ground has bloomed once since 1999. It was a shock to see it as I was sure it was long gone. Over the years I've tossed a couple of pots when leaves looked virused and saved seed of some of my favorites and grown them on. I've also given seed to the BX I think. Hamish Sloan offered seed to the BX too and I have one plant in bud at the moment from some of the ones I succeeded in growing. During the topic of the week years we had some first rate information on growing these from Hamish and our wiki team has also added a lot of good information on the wiki Nerine page: <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…> My Nerines hybrids bloom so much better now that they get summer water so the roots don't shrivel. I can't leave mine out in winter because where I live it is too wet and they got stagonospora curtisii (red blotch). So I leave them in the greenhouse where I have a fan on 24-7 and put them under the benches in summer and water every two to four weeks depending on how hot it has been. If I lived in a hot summer climate I'd probably move them to a cooler place during the summer. Most years the majority of my pots bloom and they are wonderful. I love the dazzling blooms. They are so sparkly (which you can capture when photographed in the sun.) Hopefully Matt Mathus will speak up since he grows a lot of the hybrids in his greenhouse in Massachusetts. Mary Sue