Hi Jim W. and all, Other than what shows up in the mass market bulb catalogfs, there are not many sources of Nerine sarniensis hybrids. Your best bet: Nick de Rothschild (Nerines.com) in the UK has his own plus the Smithers collection and offers them for sale each year in late spring. Check his web site. I have a few bulbs (maybe 8 or 10) from Nick, and one of them is already in bud. Jim McK.'s complaint is the same as mine -- how to get them to survive the summer and then bloom. My best results (far from optimal!) are to keep them potted and dry in my basement all summer, and to mist them occasionally. I may not mist them often enough as they do shrivel alarmingly! Nick's bulbs are very fine, but not cheap. Try a few before you spend a lot of money on bunches of these bulbs. Jim Shields in pleasant but too dry Westfield, Indiana USA At 11:05 AM 8/22/2010 -0500, Jim W. wrote: >....... > I just had a few emails about this and began to wonder just how > 'rare' this bulb and its many cvs are in cultivation in the US. > I noted we have a fair number of pix o the wiki, but very few > nursery sources. > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > > So how many PBS ers grow Nerines? Any collectors out there? > > Comments? Best Jim W. ************************************************* 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